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Maddy Inez (b 1993) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. She works primarily in clay, creating hand-built ceramic sculptures that draw from domestic objects, furniture forms and architectural fragments. Her work often reinterprets functional vessels, pedestals, and ornamental structures, translating them into sculptural forms that emphasise weight, texture, and surface treatment.

Using glazing, carving, and layered construction, Leeser highlights the tactile qualities of clay while referencing historical decorative arts and interior design.

all joking aside, it's easy to forget how tenuous film is as a medium. approximately 80% of all silent film is lost and approximately 50% of all film before 1950 is lost.

we can delude ourselves into thinking this would never happen with household names like Cassavetes and Rowlands but the truth is that largely they were making art for art's sake. The fact that Gena Rowlands was nominated for an academy award twice was the exception not the rule. She and her husband were mortgaging their house to make A Woman Under the Influence (1974). They were getting money from friends like Peter Falk and barely managing to scrape together $1M to produce it. The crew was mainly students from AFI. Nobody would agree to distribute the film, so Cassavetes had to personally ring up theatres and visit art houses carrying film under his arm and begging them to play it. You basically could not see this movie in theatres unless you went to a film festival in 1974 or unless you were living in Paris in the early 90s. Maybe these days you're lucky enough to live in a big city where they might play it for one night every 5 years. And this is THE Cassavetes/Rowlands film.