Video: Porcelain, seashells and tentacles. Bottom Feeders collection of creative tableware
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Creative collection of porcelain tableware Bottom Feeders, which looks as if it has been on the seabed long enough and managed to become overgrown with algae and shells, was invented by an American sculptor Mary O'Malley … In her hands, cups, plates, teapots and jugs seem to have been reborn, turning into real works of art, but without losing their functionality. Mary O'Malley herself lives and works in New York, but always travels to the south coast of Long Island for inspiration. There, on sandy beaches, to the sound of the surf, the imagination has a place to turn around, and then fresh ideas are born in the head, saturated with the brackish air that the wind blows from the coast. On one of these days, the artist came across a piece of seine thrown by a wave onto the sand, and in the seine - a lump of algae, shells, molluscs and small fish, and even a few jellyfish crept in. It was probably at this moment that Mary O'Malley came up with the Bottom Feeders, a series of original seafood made of porcelain.
In an effort to get away from the ordinary, giving way to the original and even strange, the artist conceived not only to decorate the dishes with shells and other attributes that are associated with the sea. She equipped cups, teapots and jugs with tentacle handles, and the smooth porcelain sides of the dishes were decorated with porcelain algae, coral growths and starfish, so that it began to seem as if they were miniature sculptures, and not peculiar kitchen utensils. In the Bottom Feeders collection, there are no two identical tentacle cups, shell plates and jugs with starfish, algae and polyps. They are all handmade and non-negotiable.
Creative mugs from the marine underwater collection Bottom Feeders have not yet made a splash. Although the prices for her works are impressive Mary puts. In any case, you can see all the outlandish creative works of the artist on her website.
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