The Potters Cast

The Artist with Clay and a Message | Kukuli Velarde | Episode 526

Are you merely trying to modernize pre-Columbian work or are you trying to communicate a  modern story with it as the jumping off point?

I don’t think I am trying neither. I am not the kind of artist who sits in front of the lump of clay and says, I want to get a piece inspiring in pre-Columbian work and I am going to do this that or the other. This combination of elements or ideas don’t  come from a rationalization of my possibilities to make work. I have to. …