Folwell, Jody – Tall Multi-Color Jar with Swirling Birds and Interlocking Cloud Designs
$ 1,800.00
Jody Folwell is known for her creative pottery shapes and designs. This is one of her classic asymmetric rim vessels. The jar is coil-built from native clay. The jar is etched with a series of geometric shapes. Some of the squares are polished, some are slipped with green clay. One of the polished sections is plain, while another has a swirling bird, and the third has interlocking clouds. The angular shapes and colors on the jar give the piece a very modern appearance. It was traditionally fired to create the various colorations. It is signed “Jody” and it is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.
Jody said of this shape:
“For the asymmetrical shape, I early on thought about how everything was so symmetrical in the Indian world. How far can I go to make a change? It was a little tiny change of not having everything so symmetrical. Once that became a part of Pueblo tradition, I went on to something else. With the half-polished areas, again, being very observant of other cultures and their artwork. I had seen a bamboo pottery show where only part of the vessel was polished. I called these the Japanese Volcanic pieces.” Jody Folwell, Spoken Through Clay
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Jody Folwell is known for her creative pottery shapes and designs. This is one of her classic asymmetric rim vessels. The jar is coil-built from native clay. The jar is etched with a series of geometric shapes. Some of the squares are polished, some are slipped with green clay. One of the polished sections is plain, while another has a swirling bird, and the third has interlocking clouds. The angular shapes and colors on the jar give the piece a very modern appearance. It was traditionally fired to create the various colorations. It is signed “Jody” and it is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.
Jody said of this shape:
“For the asymmetrical shape, I early on thought about how everything was so symmetrical in the Indian world. How far can I go to make a change? It was a little tiny change of not having everything so symmetrical. Once that became a part of Pueblo tradition, I went on to something else. With the half-polished areas, again, being very observant of other cultures and their artwork. I had seen a bamboo pottery show where only part of the vessel was polished. I called these the Japanese Volcanic pieces.” Jody Folwell, Spoken Through Clay
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Folwell, Jody (b. 1942)
