This seedpot by Jody Naranjo is a very early piece of her work from 1993.  The seedpot is coil-built and stone polished.  The piece is fully polished and etched after firing with three lizards etched into the clay.  They are her whimsical style of etching.  The piece was fired to a brown coloration.  The jar is signed, “Jody Naranjo” and it is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.

Jody has said of her work:

“The clay is cathartic. I spend a lot of time carving. That’s my peace. That’s the time I release my energy, any good or bad energy. If I have some issue going on, I focus and the whole world goes away.  I can sit there and build this piece from nothing. It makes me happy. You should do the part you like more. If you like it, you are good at it.  I started carving in the center where the polish didn’t meet and then my polish still looked nice. My carving in the middle was on the matte surface. Before you know it the matte surfaces started getting bigger, and it was less about masking my polishing and more about making my carving larger.  Bigger pieces tend to overwhelm me in the amount of designing I have to do.” Jody Naranjo Spoken Through Clay