Queen of the hearts from Wonderland Collection by Larisa Stevenson
Ceramic sculpture of the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. (Part of the Wonderland Collection)
There's always a moment, or whole day, when the artist meditates on how this lump of clay should take life. In this case, I beamed back to my childhood in the Soviet Union as I read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland through Vladimir Nabokov's Russian translation. Russian children's literature, while wonderful and compelling, always seems to be a parable that follows a pattern: the wise man interacts with the naive man and a lesson is learned.
My young literary head devoured the complexity and richness of, particularly the Queen's heart and soul, from Alice In Wonderland, as something new, fresh, and mind-blowing. I took her to be aloof and sad; engrossed, yet complex. Thus, her glazing was largely raku, a technique where anything can happen, but is often bright, metallic and iridescent. Just like my childhood memory of the Queen.
You can see the more of Larisa's work at larisastevenson.com.
22" high
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