Of Earth and Stone: Vessels in Classical Form
Artist’s Statement
This collection reveals the artist’s interests in spirituality, beauty, humanity and questions regarding mortality.
Heavily influenced by 15th century Korean pottery found in the Ashmolean and British Museums, these pots frequently include rocks or crystals that acknowledge the earth as the source of the clay and glaze’s most basic elements. In this way the Divine Artist and the potter are co-labor-ating.
The artist came close to death in a tram accident in Prague. This collection of funeral vases is a opportunity to explore art in life and death since a funeral vase can, of course, be a cookie jar until it is needed for a funeral.
Charles LaFond is a master potter of 25 years. He works in production and art pottery and employs Raku, stoneware and pit firing. The artist is an Episcopal Priest, an author and a daily blogger.
