BioAnn Metlay combines ceramic sculpture with local desert woods into imaginative art. Working with disparate inspirations, like human faces, the Navajo wedding pot with its main vessel, two spouts and a handle, and the trunks of gnarly trees, her organic pieces feature the interplay of negative and positive spaces.
Originally a writer, Ann finds her art to be an extension of her previous creative endeavors. Her current art is now visual poetry. She draws inspiration from sculptors including Picasso and Henry Moore, primitive African sculpture and the beauty of the Verde Valley and Sedona. She mades er ceramic pieces at the Reitz Ranch in Sycamore Canyon, then works them into her assemblage at her studio in Cottonwood. Ann continues to write and incorporates her poetry into her current work. |
Photo Credit: John Keehn of Studio A Bit Blue
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To Be A Tree In The Desert
Buffeted by winds.
blasted by sands,
baked by summer's
relentless sun.
The debris from these trees,
the jagged breaks in their limbs,
the bark, thickened into a shield,
the root gnarled around a rock.
Collected and assembled,
these speak to the textures,
the lines, the shapes,
of arid existence.
Buffeted by winds.
blasted by sands,
baked by summer's
relentless sun.
The debris from these trees,
the jagged breaks in their limbs,
the bark, thickened into a shield,
the root gnarled around a rock.
Collected and assembled,
these speak to the textures,
the lines, the shapes,
of arid existence.
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