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| Barbara Block |
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After many years of working in clay, Barbara Block still feels the excitement of cracking
open the kiln to see the finished work. Unlike the painter or sculptor in stone who see
their finished creations before them, the ceramist must first wait until the ancient
elements, fire and earth, have completed their work.
Her fascination with pre-Colombian ceramics created by the Olmecs and Moches as well
as the votive ceramics of the Etruscans have inspired much of her work.
The New York Times art critics described her sculpture as "revealing an interior
spirit and its antithesis," reminiscent of a "spirit house" with its restrictive
entrance that only the initiated may penetrate.
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