Miao Xuan Liu

Catastrophe's Whore

Three separate ceramic mounds emerge from the ground, making up the face and wings of a creature. The creature has long hair and two sets of sockets where eyes should be, its face hovering just above the nostril line.

“As Axis Mundi, or Spigot of Divination suggests an Above beyond our known world, Catastrophe's Whore indicates a realm beyond our perception Below, yielding the membranes between worlds porous. Blue glazes were intentionally avoided, because, although a figure submerging/emerging from water is an apt visual metaphor, I wanted to imply a Below beyond our tangible experience. The glaze is lustrous, leaky, wet. It betrays movement, the film leftover from excretion, the thin membrane between worlds punctured.”