After jungle bashing alone, Red and Beads find the cave. They pick out the wall crystals that are inside and take them back to the Jetty Shack. The crystals were crafted into this formation by the humans that lived there before. This type of pottery is still a practice of survival today. In modern times art remains in every human culture that ever lived. The spirit of creativity is in our survival instinct. An artisan’s drive to create can return after adversity, again, and again. Artisanship is a ‘way of life’.

Wheel turned jet black stoneware. Carved clay crystals. Rivulet mauve glaze.

Fired to 1280.

Wall attachment at rear.

Height: 14cm

Width: 14cm

Depth: 11 cm

By Marianne Annereau Western Australia.