Maryam Maigida :: The Tribute (Rare Mutation) ceramics herbal and grounding

herbal and grounding

The inside is left smooth so the two surfaces argue a little

sitting up off the silver so light gets underneath

and the aged key

8 feet by just over 12

Maryam Maigida :: The Tribute (Rare Mutation) ceramics herbal and groundingA figure sits in flowing robes, hands folded, and where the head should be there is a bus. Above it, a great halo of danfo buses turns against a yellow sun, each one lettered by hand, a city rising in ochre behind. It is a portrait of a person made entirely of the place that carries them. Thick, worked paint. The buses sit up off the canvas so the surface changes as you move past it. In the artist's words: a metaphorical depiction of what goes through