Confined into animal

In sepia tone contemplative gesture with delicate hands and feet, Crystal Morey creates totemic ceramic figurines that reflect our complex relationship with the environment.


“The animals I use are either extinct or have become endangered due to human impact in this era of great acceleration since the Industrial Revolution. The concepts behind the work are about our contemporary environmental issues while the visual structure pursues a totemic feel.

I am looking at visual material including Native American ceremonial masks and regalia, Byzantine and Renaissance devotional painting, secular portraits and altarpieces, and Egyptian antiquities.

I am interested in how human advancements in technology, agriculture, and urbanization have imposed stress on natural ecosystems and the species that live within them.” — Crystal Morey

Read more: Crystal Morey’s statement

What is the adverb for animal? wordhippo

Toits de tuiles

Avignon, France {flickr}

Bangkok, Thailand {flickr}

Brienzwiler, Switzerland {flickr}

Dubrovnik, Croatia {flickr}

Lamas, Peru {flickr}

Leiden, Netherlands {flickr}

Lijiang, China {flickr}

Monchique, Portugal {flickr}

Olvera, Spain {flickr}

Paphos, Cyprus {flickr}

Phuket, Thailand {flickr}

Roma, Italia {flickr}

Santa Barbara, USA {flickr}

Seoul, Korea {flickr}

Xalapa, Mexico {flickr}

Yokohama, Japan {flickr}

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To imitate feathers

Charging Bull

The famous hand painted fishnet décor adorning these animals (from Herend porcelain manufactory) took form in 1858 when a Herend painter became inspired by a fish scale design he saw on a Chinese porcelain plate and painted a similar pattern onto a rooster figurine to imitate feathers. The rest is history.

Deer with Fawn

Dragonfly on Grass

Elephant

 Elk

 German Shepherd

 Giraffes

 Gorilla

 Horse

 House Wren

 Standing Bear

This search @ pinterest is about Herend fishnet porcelain and this link (FIGURINES) was pretty useful to me.

Tea nouveau

Created in 2002 by Francis Chen, Chinese porcelain Franz collection gives a taste for sharing an afternoon hot cup of tea.

With a drop of cream, please.

Franz Porcelain blends the essence of traditional Chinese culture with classic art nouveau designs.

Chimney boy

 

Barns, water towers, granaries. Mary Fischer has always been fascinated with buildings and architecture. She works ceramic in white clay and finishes her pieces with photo transfers onto wet clay, slip and iron oxide washes, to get a muted antique feel to her work.

Photography © MudFire Gallery

"I've been interested in buildings and photographing buildings and reading architectural magazines ever since I can remember," Mary Fischer says.

In high school in New Braunfels TX USA, an architect came to talk to the class during a job fair.

"He stressed the math, and I really don't do math. That definitely dampened my spirits."

So maybe she wouldn't be an architect. She still loved architecture. Mary Fischer took a class in clay. The rest is history.