Swirling Clay Landscape Sculptures

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posted Oct 19 @ 11:00 AM by Jason Kottke · gift link

a blue sky and green field landscape sculpted from clay

a blue sky, green field, and river landscape sculpted from clay

Alisa Lariushkina uses air-dry clay to make swirling sculptures that look like landscape paintings. Lariushkina’s patterns and color palette evoke the style of Post-Impressionist painters — indeed she’s even recreated van Gogh’s Starry Night in clay. (via my modern met)