Unsigned. Painted terracotta.
Another objet trouvee, this time a piece of pot glued to a cardboard backing sheet and framed. This comes from a hotel in Tucson, Arizona, and is presumably meant to evoke some kind of Native American vibe, patterns as old as time and all that. Perhaps it's meant to look as though it was just stumbled across in the desert, almost an archaeological specimen, a broken remnant of a broken people, poignant and mysterious. Except of course that it's clearly brand new and never used - it was obviously specifically made to be broken and framed. To the artist's credit, it does look as though the pot has been genuinely handcrafted, though probably by some purple-haired hippie chick in a downtown studio, and not a wizened old Apache with a hand-turned potter's wheel. It's a $5 pot bought from a craft store that someone has smashed and framed a piece of, and then presumably charged Marriott $100 for it. Excellent work, amgio!
