WOW!  This is a striking large bowl by Preston Duwyenie.  It is made from micaceous clay and has a turned-in rim.  On the rim are four inset pieces of silver, representing the four directions. The center has a round inset piece of silver cast, which Preston says represents water in the center of the bowl.  The silver is all cast from cuttlefish bone to create a “shifting sand” design.  The bowl was fired to a silvery black and then the silver pieces were inset.  It is a visually striking bowl in design and amazingly thin walled!  The bowl is signed on the bottom with Preston’s hallmark.  It is a woman carrying a child on her back which is Preston’s Hopi name, which means “carried in beauty”.  He is married to pottery Debra Duwyenie and now resides in Santa Clara Pueblo.  Preston has won numerous awards for pottery, including “Best of Show” at the Heard Indian Market.

“Why the shifting sand designs? Preston says he remembers watching a smooth pebble caught in sand being shifted by the wind, “there was beauty in its isolation within the sea of sand. It was like an island.  The endless sands of time, and the fact that people, too are tossed about by the wind. There is always rippling in our lives”.