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American
(1952–1994)
Globe
1989
Earthenware
12 x 17 x 17 in.
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation with matching funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
1990.2
Globe is one of the forms in which Rick Dillingham explored his “broken pot” method, where first he bisque fired the vessel before ritualistically breaking it apart. After glazing the shards with copper luster and a swirling lattice pattern, he reassembled the pieces to create a patchwork of color and design. The fractured surface, the variety in coloration due to the firing process, and the use of Native American motifs create the illusion of a reassembled archaeological find. Dillingham’s Globe is radical in that it uses the act of repair as a metaphor for both healing and to illuminate the segregation between his “art” object and Native American ceramic objects often deemed “artifacts” by anthropologists.
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