Collected Item: “Covidian Talismen”
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Covidian Talismen
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Ceramics
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
During the pandemic, Still Life Studio in Santa Monica had to shut down. I set up a studio at home and used my ceramic work to cope with the pandemic. The epic quality of a world wide pandemic soon became the theme of the work itself. I wanted archeologists to did up these vessels a thousand years from now and know what we had gone through. The "Covidian Amphora" tells the story of things we were doing during the pandemic. The "Vaccine Brewpot" was done about a month before the vaccine was available. I was excited and so made a giant sized (14" x 20") brew pot for it. After I got my shot, I made ceramic vials for antibodies as an ode to the antibody dragon searching through our system.
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#smhopes, #ceramictherapy, #pandemicceramicsforarcheology
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www.osborneart.net
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Polly Osborne
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2020-10-10