In The Face Of The Sun
Elizabeth Paige Smith Art Ceramic Silhouettes: ceramic sculptures, made by hand and kiln fired.
IN THE FACE OF THE SUN
The Silhouettes, terra-cotta clay female figures, are representations of battered souls. Deeply formed impressions, shaped by intuition and emotion, reveal uniquely defined feminine silhouettes. They evoke the innards of sarcophagi, the vulnerability of unsheltered mollusks - a topography of the soul.
Smith’s interest to work this series in clay came about because to her, the clay embodies a likeness, rawness, a vulnerability closely representative to the self. Using her hands, her fingers, and her breath, she pushes boundaries of material generating a build inspired by the soul who’s unable to recover from life’s punches. As she’s applying emotional chaos and physical pressure to each, Smith’s narrative of battered souls emerges.
