Rabbit with Vase

Bobrowski’s ‘Rabbit with Vase’ is a loose and playful capturing of the animal, interested in capturing the essence of the creature as much as any objective rendering, and opining on the relationship between nature and culture. The works surface is roughly inscribed, accruing detail through a patchwork of glazes that seem latently or automatically introduced — but which, with time, begin to reveal an enclosed network of figurative detail. The simple salt-glazed vessel besides the animal may meditate upon origins of material and the sculptural versus functional application of the work, or else adds some strange knowing legend to the form.