Duwyenie, Preston – Red Shifting Sand Plate with Coral

3"d

$ 225.00

This piece by Preston Duwyenie is made from red Hopi clay found near Third Mesa at Hopi.  The plate is stone polished on the back and matte on the front. The front is etched with very tight lines to have the appearance of shifting sands.  There is a single inset piece of coral within the bands of the sand design.

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”.

The plate is signed on the back in the clay with Preston’s hallmark which is a woman carrying a child.  Preston is from Third Mesa at Hopi, and taught ceramics for years at Institute of American Indian Art (IAIA) in Santa Fe.