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America Age > Blog > Art & Books > Karolina Romanowska Embraces the Nature of Clay with Daring, Spirited Masks — Colossal
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Karolina Romanowska Embraces the Nature of Clay with Daring, Spirited Masks — Colossal

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June 17, 2024

Jackie Andres

All pictures © Karolina Romanowska, shared with permission

How have you learnt when your paintings is completed? Do you step again and take a number of deep breaths as you take heed to your instinct? Or do you retain going, specializing in the smallest of particulars, and apply the regulation of diminishing returns? Belaboring whether or not a piece is “complete” is widespread for creatives, and Karolina Romanowska believes working in ceramics has helped her overcome this inward block.

“Clay moves with the maker. It’s alive and it has a spirit of its own,” says the Madison-based artist. “It’s a constant dance that demands discipline, and the nature of the material forces me to be finished. Once the piece comes out of the bisque fire, I can no longer change its structure. I have to accept it, nurture it, and decorate it one color and texture at a time.” Romanowska adorns every of her masks with a large number of patterns and raised surfaces in vivid hues that coat distinct options akin to curved horns, copious eyes, rosy cheeks, and protruding tongues. Their faces evoke a spread of expressions from worry and trepidation to contentment and jubilation.

By focusing closely on the fantastic thing about the making course of and the integrity of clay, the artist explains, “It’s not really about the work but about the few days I have with the material, where I get to imprint myself onto it and then let go.” Cultivating a wholesome relationship along with her inventive apply has catapulted her into a spot the place she will produce increasingly more iterations, slightly than feeling caught. Romanowska views the creation of extra work as a possibility to create extra possibilities to succeed and fail.

The artist fondly shared that her subsequent massive undertaking would be the beginning of her second baby. Although Romanowska is but to know what sort of labor she might be producing in due time, you will discover extra on her web site and Instagram.

 

a hand holds up a ceramic mask with distinct features such as horns, multiple eyes, a tongue sticking out, patterned and textured complexions in colorful tones.

a ceramic mask with distinct features such as horns, multiple eyes, patterned and textured complexions in colorful tones.

a ceramic mask with distinct features such as horns, multiple eyes, a tongue sticking out, patterned and textured complexions in colorful tones.

a hand holds up a ceramic mask with distinct features such as horns, multiple eyes, patterned and textured complexions in colorful tones.

a hand holds up a ceramic mask with distinct features such as horns, multiple eyes, patterned and textured complexions in colorful tones.

a figure holds up a ceramic mask with distinct features such as horns, multiple eyes, a tongue sticking out, patterned and textured complexions in colorful tones.

 

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#clay
#Karolina Romanowska
#masks

 

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