Bud Vase

Ohio sculptor Falcione came to his practice through conceptualism, and though his works have settled into functional objectivity —focused on producing art for the interior — they hold a vestige that is exchanged in the language and understanding of the material. The ‘Bud Vase’ naturally assumes a plantlike form and resolve, the surface of the porcelain gently roughened from a process in which the vessel is dipped in hot beeswax, the depth of texture heightened through a selection of delicate stain applications in which the colour appears to have alchemically fused with the clay rather than simply sitting on top.