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Les Bijoux de Malu
Malu Mancinelli
Brentwood,
TN
Medium:
Ceramics New to Artclectic
USN parent '27, '30
“When we moved to Japan I couldn’t work with words anymore (I used to be a language teacher, but spoke no Japanese) so I switched to clay instead in order to keep my sanity!,” says Malu Mancinelli, the artisan behind Les Bijoux de Malu.
Malu uses clay, underglaze and glaze. Each piece is hand built from scratch, then painted and glazed. She uses the sgraffito technique in a lot of her pieces, but hand paints over clay as well.
It is clear in Malu’s work that she started her pottery journey in Japan. “There are organic shapes and Asian motifs, a kind of beauty that is discreet but stands out. On the other hand, being from Brazil, tropical colours and motifs are also present.”
Get to know Malu better:
How do you know when a piece is finished?
There is that sweet moment in which your brain says stop before you mess it up. Clay is very fragile, and that reflects the fragility of our lives.
In terms of your art, where is the most inspirational place you’ve ever been?
Definitely Japan. They have this “wabi sabi” theory, that the imperfection is where real beauty lies. It changed my perception of beauty forever, and I see it now in several other cultures, like the Amish that always do one stitch badly to show modesty.
Titles of works can be descriptive or clever or totally unrelated. What’s your favorite title of a piece you’ve named?
“Old sensei’s blue dragon”. When a friend saw it, she immediately said that I worked like an old sensei. Sensei is teacher in Japanese, and when you achieve to make a piece that reminds people of an old teacher, you cannot ask for anything more.
