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Ceramic masks

Faces crowned with grapes, vine leaves and small blue blossoms. Cobalt, terracotta and verdigris glazes. Anahita's masks are worn by a wall, not a face; they change the room.

The masks began as portraits in clay and became a series. Each face is hand-modelled and then finished with a crown of vine leaves, grapes or blossoms pressed and cut individually. Glazes are Anahita’s own recipes: cobalt for the grape crowns, verdigris green for the vine crowns, and terracotta left plain for the smaller faces.

They hang directly from a hidden loop at the back and cast a slight shadow against a pale wall. Sizes are recorded from the ceramic itself.

Works in this series are being photographed and will appear here.

Set in Libre Caslon Display, Libre Caslon Text, IBM Plex Sans, IBM Plex Mono and Vazirmatn.