Blue Pleadies (for Olokun)
Mid-fire oxidation, slip, under glaze, and glazed stoneware sourced from a river bed in Haiti and the Mississippi river in the United States, approximately 24 x 8 x 8 inches
Blue Pleadies (for Olokun)
Mid-fire oxidation, slip, under glaze, and glazed stoneware sourced from a river bed in Haiti and the Mississippi river in the United States, approximately 24 x 8 x 8 inches
Blue Pleadies (for Olokun)
Mid-fire oxidation, slip, under glaze, and glazed stoneware sourced from a river bed in Haiti and the Mississippi river in the United States, approximately 24 x 8 x 8 inches
Blue Pleadies (for Olokun)
Mid-fire oxidation, slip, under glaze, and glazed stoneware sourced from a river bed in Haiti and the Mississippi river in the United States, approximately 24 x 8 x 8 inches
Blue Pleadies (for Olokun)
Mid-fire oxidation, slip, under glaze, and glazed stoneware sourced from a river bed in Haiti and the Mississippi river in the United States, approximately 24 x 8 x 8 inches
Blue Pleadies (for Olokun)
Mid-fire oxidation, slip, under glaze, and glazed stoneware sourced from a river bed in Haiti and the Mississippi river in the United States, approximately 24 x 8 x 8 inches
Detail of Blue Pleadies (for Olokun)
Mid-fire oxidation, slip, under glaze, and glazed stoneware sourced from a river bed in Haiti and the Mississippi river in the United States, approximately 24 x 8 x 8 inches

For Olokun

A couple of years ago I was honored by a friend of mine who commissioned me to make a vessel for his spiritual practice as a Yoruba priest. That vessel was intended as a ritual vessel to honor Olokun, the Orisha deity that rules the bottom of the ocean and is sometimes associated with stories of the Middle Passage. Making that vessel led me to harvest clay sourced from a river bed in Haiti (a gift from a fellow potter I know in Port-au-Prince) and the Mississippi river in the United States.