Creativity may be driven by the quest for originality, but sometimes, even the most singular creations grab our attention because we sense something familiar in a shape we’ve never seen before. Case in point: the ceramics of Los Angeles-based Maryam Riazi. While these pieces echo an almost Giacometti-like invention, they also suggest artifacts of an unknown culture. There’s something wonderfully kinetic in them too, as if they are about to walk away, or are still in the process of becoming. Like many, Riazi learned to work with clay at the wheel. But round and round wasn’t her thing. “The rhythm in doing that is meditative and soothing, but I wanted to do more,” she shares. “. I started hand building completely functional pieces, but function slowly lost its appeal. I made objects which focused more on form. I want to move more and more toward sculptural shapes.”
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