Mountainscape -Two Views

Artist Statement 

In Mountain-scape Two Views the evocative, blue decoration references two illusionary landscape techniques from Western and Eastern art history.

Two views are placed on each mountain. One view depicts the blue hazy landscape of 16^th century painters who devised the use of a vanishing point to create a sense of expansive distance on a flat surfece. The alternate view refers to techniques used in Chinese scroll painting where the eye meanders through a series of symbolic scenarios. Here space is illusive rather than literal.

The choice of unglazed porcelain highlights the translucent qualities of a material that was once deemed more valuable than gold.

I have used mountain forms as a metaphor for enlightenment and achievement. These sculptural vessels tell the story of artistic endeavor.