Bowl (P482)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Rupert Spira
Title
Bowl
Made in
Shropshire
Date
2003
Description
Stoneware bowl with opaque white glaze and an embossed poem:
IT BURNS IN THE VOID
NOTHING UPHOLDS IT
STILL IT TRAVELS
TRAVELLING THE VOID
UPHELD BY BURNING
NOTHING IS STILL
BURINING IT TRAVELS
THE VOID UPHOLDS IT
STILL IT IS NOTHING
NOTHING IT TRAVELS
A BURNING VOID
UPHELD BY STILLNESS
IT BURNS IN THE VOID
NOTHING UPHOLDS IT
STILL IT TRAVELS
TRAVELLING THE VOID
UPHELD BY BURNING
NOTHING IS STILL
BURINING IT TRAVELS
THE VOID UPHOLDS IT
STILL IT IS NOTHING
NOTHING IT TRAVELS
A BURNING VOID
UPHELD BY STILLNESS
Materials and techniques
Thrown stoneware bowl, reduction fired to 1280 c, with a poem embossed onto an opaque white zircon glaze.
Dimensions
height: 25cm
diameter: 25cm
Object number
P482
Category
Maker's statement
Part of a body of work experimental with the use of texts, embossed and inscribed.