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American,
b. 1947
Shallow Edge of the Gene Pool 1
2005
Stoneware and porcelain
3.25 x 18 x 13.125 in.
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
2006.8
Maryann Webster has said about Shallow Edge of the Gene Pool: “The basin form is in the style of Bernard Palissy, a French ceramics artist from the late Renaissance, whose works were designed to glorify nature. Five hundred years later I wanted to comment on what has happened to nature since then . . . Pure water was considered a source of all life, but water now often contains toxins from industrial dumping, sewage, agricultural chemical runoff, oil spills, radioactive contamination, and plastic particles. Damage to the natural world by humans is outpacing the planet’s capacity to recover. The mutant form in the center represents a confusion of plant and animal forms. The snake (as in Palissy’s basins) represents the snake entering the Garden of Eden and destroying Paradise.”
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