#crawl glaze

This demonstrates a recurrent fascination with the conical shape. Although square in composition, each side has a contour reminiscent of a leaf-- a shape aesthetically tied to Middle-Easter, Indian, and Southeast-Asian culture and art. This association with the leaf is strengthened by the autumn-like color palette--dark cinnabar, jade green, and auburn yellows.

After carefully analyzing this tile, I discovered that each quality built up on the previous one to create an overall sentiment of death and ruin. Perhaps not in the sense of the melancholic or macabre, but of time passing and decay-overcomming. The next element that captured my attention, beyond color, was the texture of the surface. It looks as though it has been weathered, like age-old sandstone, or even fungus crawling over a tree trunk.