Artist
Ruth Duckworth
Germany/Britain/USA
Scale as sculpture. Walls that breathe.
A refugee from Nazi Germany became one of the great ceramic sculptors, working from intimate vessels to monumental murals.
Ruth Duckworth fled Germany in 1936, trained as a sculptor, came to clay in her late 30s. In 1964, she moved to Chicago, and her work expanded dramatically. She created massive ceramic murals—'Earth, Water, Sky' covers 2,000 square feet—as well as intimate porcelain forms. 'Clay,' she said, 'is the stuff of life. We come from it and we return to it.'
What would happen if you dramatically changed scale?