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Portable Universe

Pre-Colombian Art Montreal Museum of Fine Arts hosted several exhibits this summer 2023 – the first one we explored in a rush to absorb all art Montreal can offer, left us in awe and reverence – a ‘Portable Universe’. ‘Portable’ because the art transcends centuries. ‘Universe’ because the artifacts embodied a philosophy of life, values, […]

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Pottery Sculpture

Sculpting, Hands and Heart

Clay Sculptures We have flirted, shyly, with a notion of 3D (and 5D). With the fact that we exist in space that surrounds us, all around. Sculpture, representational or abstract, is fascinating for that exact reason – you have to walk around it to fully appreciate its position, expression and motion from all angles and […]

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Art history Pottery Sculpture

Alter Ego

Masks – Anthropology, Art and Covid Our identity is expressed in different ways, but most often through facial expressions -a mirror of our souls. Smile, wrinkled forehead, eyes shining with excitement or drowning in tears. But, we often cover our face – out of necessity, or belief, or deceit, or playfulness – to assume an […]

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Pottery

Pottery Wheel

Some of us need to get their hands muddy to create. This is not a bare inconvenience of the medium, it is artist’s necessity to experience a tactile sensation of clay, mud, shapes.  A blind person will recognize objects, faces, a three-dimensional art by touch.  Many potters shape their creations on a pottery wheel with […]