Visions In Clay 2019
Leslie Plato Smith
Humans left Africa to circle the Globe looking for food, family, and opportunity. We have looked to the heavens for answers—moral and scientific. We have asked Mother Nature to make us strong, keep us healthy, and nourish our souls with the richness of our home planet’s diversity. We have created Civil Societies to build strength through unity, protect us from danger, and enable us to stay free.
Every generation asks: Who are we? We self-reflect: What does it means to be human? The question we face when we answer is—Do we answer for all or only our own tribe. We know we’re all humans, cut from the same cloth, but do we have a universal set of values,
perceived responsibilities, a common understanding of what it is to be human? And an ability to
join together, globally, or will we remain tribal?
Scientists estimate that 1 billion people will be migrating in response to climate change. As a result of human activities 1 million species expected to become extinct. This unheard of intra/interspecies discord is threatening to drown out reasonable discourse to find solutions.
We’re up to our necks in it. What will we do? Who are we? Who will we be? We all wonder. We hope.
Cone 10 long soak oxidation fired. Underglazes.
$3500
2018