Inuit Carved Stone Reclining Figure shelf with mirrors This medal to honor young

This medal to honor young women

This hand-thrown stoneware bowl

like a present

cut in two places to overlap

and chipped

Inuit Carved Stone Reclining Figure shelf with mirrors This medal to honor youngI've written before that my favorite Inuit sculptures possess an internal tension, holding apparently competing instincts or states of being in balance. I also tend to love those that more "primitive" than highly refined. Both hold true with this figure, whose posture is everything three quarters reclining, as if at rest, but certainly flexing one's core muscles to hold there! The profile created is of four gently curving steps, and the view from