OASIS (GIMME, GIMME)

Irish Connemara slate, 181 white stoneware, Daruda earthenware, aluminum, pigment

13½"x 13½"x 2"

Background is a thin piece of slate (about 3/16-inch thick) split-off a floor-tile made of Irish slate.  Upon it are mounted two pieces of ceramic — at the top left is a stoneware element (a modeled navel) that broke while firing a couple of years ago (and which I didn't throw away), and at bottom right is a piece of broken/discarded earthenware salvaged from the Cortona scrap pile a couple of trips back.   Both pieces were painted-stained and shaped/modified somewhat to attach them so they would 'float' over the surface of the slate and imply movement.  The little piece of textured aluminum on the red element is made from the breast-area of the little cast eagle finial that topped the gas light by the front walk that was demolished by the last wreck-but-two in the front yard.  The blue element — which is fitted into a matching-shaped hole cut into the slate — is also a piece of broken/discarded earthenware salvaged from the Cortona scrap pile on the last trip.