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SCULPTURE Brenda sculpts with Earthenware Clay and uses painterly glazing techniques. Each piece is hand built and one of a kind. To place your order please contact Brenda Star. "Star's playful sculptures . . . luscious blends of pastel tones and seemingly fluid clay, handled as deftly as a confectioner would manage a mound of whipped cream, rise like daft, almost demented dreams from their pedestals." Stewart further describes Star's work as "flashes of passion, translated into sublime ceramic sculpture." Stewart adds "Still more provocative are Star's personal icons, sculptures that are so playful in form and subject they evoke memories of both toys and treasures. ''Metamorphosis'' speaks of change, while ''Anglecake'' is dual in its imagery. Angle food cake is a frothy, lightweight dessert; this ''Anglecake'' is heavy, dense clay. This ''Anglecake,'' in other words, is more food for thought that physical nourishment. It is, literally, an angle on a cakelike shape made of clay and glazed in the pastels of a child's birthday cake. Thus its deeper significance, disturbing and also satisfying. From the earth itself, the DeLand potter has made a luscious, malleable material that celebrates the insubstantial, but at the same time the essential. Her angle and her cake symbolize the spirit, buoyant and durable and full of hope." To place your order please contact Brenda Star! |
