Iridescent Gold Coil Built Pottery Vase with Many Faces landscape drawing and plates underneath

and plates underneath

either clearly made of copper or described as tinned copper

and I think it's a terrific

in this case the possibility of literally springing it open or snapping it closed

from the woman gathering laundry off the line

Iridescent Gold Coil Built Pottery Vase with Many Faces landscape drawing and plates underneathSometimes I fall in love with things immediately, and other times it takes me a little while to realize their greatness, which is the case with this funny coil formed, iridescent gold painted pottery vase initialed DS and dated 2007, which I found in Maine this week. What I realized through the process of photographing it is how much it seems to reference folk art traditions, from memory jars to face jugs to seashell encrusted creations, making its