Abstract

FERREIRA DE ALMEIDA, Maria Cándida. Ceramics: Transformation and Freedom on/with Earth. Pensam. palabra obra [online]. 2020, n.23, pp.192-209.  Epub May 09, 2021. ISSN 2011-804X.  https://doi.org/10.17227/ppo.num23-11033.

This article seeks to reflect about the best soil -the clay- removed from earth in all parts of the world, under the focus of its transformation, its presence and its re-composition in space through art. Resorting interviews with two Colombian ceramic artists, I will develop an approach to subjects such as the environment, creation through the inspiration of nature, the gaze at the land and the voice of the artist as a strategy of evocation, as a way of production of a knowledge often considered in the contemporary artistic field. It was established upon notions ruin, desolation, near-irreparable loss, as a place of destruction of clay for pottery recreation, and its possible return to dust, intended here as an environmental reconfiguration and how these life cycles inspire pottery artists.

Keywords : pottery; eco-art; artistic creation; to touch.

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