This piece by Preston Duwyenie is made from red Hopi clay.  It is matte and carved with three sections of “shifting sand” design.  The pattern is carved into the clay so that it has a very organic and realistic appearance.  There is a single inset piece of coral.  His designs are rooted in centuries old legends of the earth’s creation, of how time began, and of how it passes. His shifting sands series integrates ceramic and often metal, reflecting one moment in time for the artist. 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”.  The bowl is signed on the bottom in the clay with Preston’s hallmark which is a woman carrying a child.  Preston is from Second Mesa at Hopi, and taught ceramics for years at Institute of American Indian Art (IAIA) in Santa Fe.