Surreal clay art

I'm All Ears

Debra Broz cleverly fuses found ceramic figurines to create comical new animals. From high-fiving horses to boxers with parrot wings, her work exists in the space where familiar and surreal meet. The artist shares with Colossal, “As I look for pieces that match in scale I’m brainstorming: What makes this funny? What makes this strange? How subtle or extreme does an alteration have to be to make someone notice?” Broz also works as a ceramics restorer, and her professional training and…

solid clay at this point (around 350 lbs), will cut apart, hollow out, and reattach before firing, about my experiences with gender dysphoria #sculpture #transgender #ftm

Faces are distorted in extraordinary ways in this sculptor's surreal work. Perhaps they are visualizations of internal struggles. What do you think?

I made a couple of functioning melting clocks out of clay a year or so ago. They looked cool, but I didn't love them. After sitting on the idea for awhile I've decided to have a go at clay again. The first one I just sculpted is just decorative, no mechanism. I think I may try to make another before my daughter wakes up from her nap. She is two so she would be all over the clay! I'd let her play with it, but I'm sure it would end up in her mouth.