Molly Prier

functional & Pueblo style vessels

41 Cameron Street
Inverness, CA, 94937
(415)669-7337
cmprier@earthlink.net

I make pottery to create beauty that people use every day. I touch and form the soft plastic clay, another person sees and touches the transformed clay. It becomes part of their life: everyday sacred. In 1974, I began teaching myself the processes of burnishing and pit firing. With my burnished pots, my shapes and ways of working have been derived from studying Pueblo Native American clay traditions. What drew me to burnishing and pit firing was the sensous, polished bone-like surface that could be created by these methods. I was also drawn to Pueblo pottery processes because of lack of technology and equippment needed for creating their beautiful pieces. I feel how something is made comes through the final piece. I hope that as people experience my work, whether a cup or bowl, a burnished vessel or sculpture, that something slows, then quiets and perhaps an echo of memory comes.

Molly's Gallery

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