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Heidi Lau’s Spirit Vessels

June 1, 2022

Heidi Lau channels personal history, colonial culture, and the spiritual world through her hands and into her otherworldly clay works. Delighting in chance and improvisation, Lau shapes all her clay sculptures by hand and applies overlapping layers of glaze to create iridescent works that resemble architectural forms, funerary vessels or mourning garments.

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"The Wave of the World" Extended Play
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Don’t Sweat The Technique

In this playlist, artists bounce between mediums, pulling techniques from one form and applying them to another, and expanding narratives. Avery Singer promotes the philosophy that a “technique tells its own story,” and the juxtaposition of new and old “produces a new visual reality” and new meaning.

Don’t Sweat The Technique
by Art21January 23, 2019 12 videos • 1:27:47 total runtime

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