Vessels (with imitation trailed glass cage mount)

BA: I was thinking about the compulsion to draw or to look at a thing – in this case a Syrian ninth century glass-trailed vessel in the British Museum that caught my eye. I drew it – well, photographed it – then kept obsessing about it.. and I almost exhausted it – exhausted my understanding or visual understanding of it, so it became something that I became really familiar with. It’s a vessel inside a surround – the glass-trail work encapsulates the pot – but the way I drew it doesn’t really look three dimensional because the line doesn’t look like it goes around the back…

[Excerpt from “Conversations on Making” 2023, the first in a series of publications by Joanna Brinton]