flight risks

Novie Trump. Out of the Ashes. Ceramic installation.

Wings, the appendages of flight, rendered in clay -- the most earthbound of materials.

Jessica Drenk. Bibliophylum. Carved books, pinned on wall.

Wings, again. Carved from the pages of books. The ultimate flying machine of the human mind.

Louise Richardson. Feathers.

Images of women on tatty old feathers. On quills.

Women have always posed a flight risk.

Novie Trump, reliquaries

Novie Trump. Birth. Ceramic.

Again, the reliquary.

The form that contains the sacred. (The stand-in for the bodies of saints and gods. The stand-in for the bodies of each of us.)

Here, rendered eloquently by ceramic artist Novie Trump. Mixing the metaphors of life and death, of flight and home. Of sky and earth. Of the ever-new and the timeless. The old forms of sanctuary windows and triptych altarpieces. The unreadable writing of god on scrolls and tablets.

Novie Trump. Gift from the Heavens. Ceramic, glass, cork, feather.

Novie Trump. Nest. Ceramic.

Novie Trump. Requiem for Raven. Ceramic.

Novie Trump. Sky Awaits. Ceramic.

Novie Trump. The Evolution of Flight. Ceramic.

Novie Trump. White Pebble. Ceramic.