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Ceramic Work
The Journey of Three Things honors the memories of my paternal grandmother, Shoghagat Margosian and her mother, my great grandmother, Santoukht Arkoian. They arrived at Ellis Island with only a bag of wool, the stem of a rose bush and a grape leaf vine from the refugee camps in Aleppo, Syria after having survived the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Sea Turtle tureen modeled after an Edo period Japanese-style soup tureen. I sgraffitoed the head, flippers, shell and soup handle. I used engobe for the shell, head, flippers and soup handle.
Ocean within a Wave expresses my love for the ocean and the millions of ways she can be portrayed. I created this form using a stainless steel mold my husband, Ted Hinman custom made for me.
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