Maryam Maigida :: The Tribute (Rare Mutation) ceramics The iron wears its history

The iron wears its history on the surface

Known for their healing and purification properties

Kim Bresson

The surface is charred by hand in the Shou Sugi Ban tradition

A lidded jar in quiet sage-grey

Maryam Maigida :: The Tribute (Rare Mutation) ceramics The iron wears its historyA figure sits in flowing robes, hands folded, and where the head should be there is a bus. Above it, a great halo of danfo buses turns against a yellow sun, each one lettered by hand, a city rising in ochre behind. It is a portrait of a person made entirely of the place that carries them. Thick, worked paint. The buses sit up off the canvas so the surface changes as you move past it. In the artist's words: a metaphorical depiction of what goes through