Meghan Rutz

Clothilde, 2025

A demo piece that became a challenge I was determined to finish. I’ve been using procreate to try out different glazing options before committing to my first idea (which is what I usually do). This isn’t how I would have thought to glaze this piece, but I’m quite jazzed with the pink and green cotton candy body and how it plays with the clay body.

Anyway, just thinking about Spring and flowers and what my garden in space would look like.

Destalled the pinecone from its home at Mercer Gardens for the past 6 months.

Unfortunately, its shed most of its spindles ( or a few went home with the public who knows ). While I don’t love how exposed it looks, I do quite like the idea of it shedding and morphing as the season changed.

More unfortunate was realizing moving it meant destroying a few homes little friends had spent months inhabiting inside. A nice lizard, a few wasps nests and one small but spoooooky Black Widow.

Anyway, she’s home now & hopefully the jungle will grow with the rain and fill her in nicely.