Wrestling with Balance

Beginning with standard, symmetrical thrown pots, Anne Marie Laurels slowly pulls, stretches and deforms the still-wet clay to a new, unique and semi-spontaneous shape. The lustrous physicality of the vessel reveals the movement of the artists hand and the fluency and overall plasticity of the base material in a flesh-like tonality, built in a gradient of matte glazes. Belgian clay thrown on the wheel, altered and assembled clayglazes