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New Era Series

• Let the Earth Cradle You
​• Folktales 2020
• Baby Names 1955-2020


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Let The Earth Cradle You

Our teacher, Lilia, said, “Let the earth cradle you.” I loved the peace it gave me. I imagined this sculpture.
Time passed. Then we were all hit by the Pandemic,
unemployment, Climate Crisis, evictions,
our people dying & divided. The murder of George Floyd highlighted the tyranny of it all.
One thing many people could do, was hike in nature and let the earth cradle them. 
This was the one piece I felt I could create for everyone, everywhere. I hope it helps.
©️Vicki Gunter - recycled clay, underglaze, stains, beeswax 15.5 x 21 x 20 . 2021
©️Vicki Gunter - recycled clay, underglaze, stains, beeswax 15.5 x 21 x 20 . 2021
Let the Earth Cradle You - New Era Series . ©️Vicki Gunter - recycled clay, underglaze, stains, beeswax 15.5 x 21 x 20 . 2021
©️Vicki Gunter - recycled clay, underglaze, stains, beeswax 15.5 x 21 x 20 . 2021
©️Vicki Gunter - recycled clay, underglaze, stains, beeswax 15.5 x 21 x 20 . 2021
©️Vicki Gunter - recycled clay, underglaze, stains, beeswax 15.5 x 21 x 20 . 2021

Folktales 2020

 Our American folktales in 2020: Covid-19, fire, fire, climate crisis, floods, trump, Black Lives Matter, $$$, 
​endangered: coral, frogs, flowers, butterflies, us masked. It's all in there.
Created for the invitational show, It's Not One Thing... It's Everything 
@ Canessa Gallery San Francisco California, November 2020.
FOLKTALE 2020 clay, nichrome wire, Underglaze -- 6.5 X 9 X 10 – 2020
©️Vicki Gunter - recycled clay, underglaze, stains, beeswax 15.5 x 21 x 20 . 2021
Folktale 2020 - New Era Series

Baby Names 1955-2020

When shelter in place began, March 2020, I was motivated to take advantage of previously desired, and newly
abundant, time. I completed 3 clay sculptures from March-May. For me that’s a lot! Then I began grieving.

When George Floyd was murdered I was completely untethered, emotionally and creatively. I couldn’t continue
on the same path. I wanted to hit the streets in protest but having reached age 70, COVID-19 held me back.

I mused and woke one morning with a full vision of a new piece, 'Baby Names-1955-2020,
incorporating my previous paths and Black Lives Matter. I found it critical for me as a white artist and mother
to speak these names, vote for change, create art that is Shaken not stirred. 

The 44 names on this piece, begin with Emmett Till whose 1955 murder sparked the civil rights movement.
The list ends with George Floyd. 
I chose white as my primary palette because George Floyd’s family wore white to his funeral saying,
this is ​"NOT an end, but a new era!" The yellow, cautionary, canary alerts us~ Canary & Elephant Series.
DNA is inscribed on two petals of the blooming rose ...In Everything Series. 

Clay is slow, fragile, then stone. Change is slow, fragile then inevitable.
I feel an urgency to creat art in these precarious, revolutionary times.
These people were all somebody's baby.
Say their names.
      
BABY NAMES 1955-2020 paper clay, underglaze, stains, glaze -- 20 X 27 X 5.5 inches
Detail side view of Baby Names 1955-2020 Rose
Say their names. This is only 44 names of the many black lives that matter.

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