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| Student Name: | Stefan V |
| Grade: | 11 |
| Title: | Let the Earth Rise Up |
| Description: | The tortoise, slow, wise, and ancient, emerges from the earth with a gnarled and twisted tree of life clinging to its earthen shell. A hollow mound composes the base of the piece, with the tree and roots teased out of the clay. The body of the tortoise itself was created from a coil pot with layers added upon it to create the shell, and the sculpted head and legs were attached last, molded to resemble a living tortoise with the utmost precision. Covered with acrylic paint in realistic earthen tones, the piece depicts a metamorphosis of the grandest scale as life emerges from stone. The tortoise embodies the living spirit of our earth, and although life may suffer and be twisted like the trunk of a windswept tree, it will remain, and in the end it will rise up victorious despite the ravages inflicted upon it. |
| Dimensions: | (L)8 x (W)13 x (H)7 (Inches) |
| Weight: | 5 Lbs. |
| School: | Mclean High School - Mclean , VA |
| Teacher: | Christina Carroll |
| Exhibition: | 24th Annual National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition, Virtual This Year |
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| Clay Vendor: | Standard, Stoneware 553 |
| Wheel Vendor: | Other, handbuilt |
| Tool Vendor: | Other |
| Glaze Vendor: | Other, No glaze, all alternative finishes acrylic paint |
| Kiln Vendor: | Paragon, front loader |
| Firing Temp: | Low Stoneware, slow bisque |
| Atmosphere: | Oxidation |
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