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couple: fishwives • naiads

"Fishwives" plays with both The Birth of Venus by Botticelli (our girl is wearing her fish) as well as to tweak the idea of the loud, coarse obnoxious (and always punished) fishwives of classic fairytales.
method: coil built • terra cotta • silkscreen • ceramic ink • slip • glaze • fired to c.6
fishwives ~ bass girl ~ detail fishwives ~ piranha girl ~ detail

fishwives
collaboration: marcia adler•nancy pirri
bass girl: 17"H x 7"W x 4.5"D
piranha girl: 18"H x 7"W x 4.5"D - SOLD
$950 ea/$1800 set

© Marcia Adler•Nancy Pirri. All Rights Reserved
all sculpture is original and hand-built

fishwives ~ piranha girl ~ detail
fishwives ~ bass girl ~ detail