Private Collection

Stoneware Clay

An expansion on the Dutch 17th century vanitas theme, this work explores the differences of success and failure, intemperance and the meagre, through the use of colour, form and texture. The use of viticultural vessels and colour are metaphors for the development of the grape, and more generally one’s fortune or fate. What occurs to the grape from its budding to its bottling, i.e its environmental circumstances, chemical additions, terroir or inherited faxtors and maturing process, is similar to the development of a person.