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Mary Fischer
The focus of my work is architecture. I look at buildings in the wild and in books. They get jumbled in my head and sorted out by my hands. The buildings started as boxes. Lids became roofs; feet and chimneys appeared and things go on from there, changing from season to season. There are no special techniques or attempts to disguise how pieces are put together. Surface treatments and forms change over time corresponding to things that capture my interest. The timelessness of indigenous, especially desert, architecture is an abiding influence, as is the use of concrete by contemporary architects.
Mary Fischer
Granary with Kiln Elements, 2004
ceramic, oxides, slips, srings
11.5" by 8" diameter
Photograph by Ansen Seale
Mary Fischer
Barn with Grid, 2004
ceramic, oxides, slips
13" by 4.5" by 13"
Photograph by Ansen Seale
Mary Fischer
Treehouse with Purple Prickles, 2004
ceramic, oxides, slips, glaze
18" by 4.5" diameter
Photograph by Ansen Seale