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Bottom Feeders: Ceramic Objects Encrusted with Marine Life by Mary O’Malley

April 25, 2013

Christopher Jobson

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As if lifted from the wreckage of the Titanic, ceramic artist Mary O’Malley creates sculptural porcelain teapots, cups, and vases adorned with barnacles, tentacles, and other living sea creatures (she refers to them as “porcelain crustaceans”).

 

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#ceramics #nature #ocean #sculpture

 

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