Sculptures by Salina Ladha

SCULPTURES BY SALINA LADHA
WORDS & PHOTOS BY JEREMY NISCHUCK 

In an effort to create a more complete portfolio for my good friend, painter and ceramicist, Salina Ladha, I offered to lend my rankly amateur photo skills to capture her newest series of ceramic planters. She needs to get some recognition for these bad-boys. This set is playful and fun but with a sense of somber solitude. To me, they seem like a study of joy in isolation: as one or two colours leave the group of colours and play on the edges, or on the corners of the piece. To me, the forms of the pieces are also quite joyful, one reminding me of a mother and father lifting their child in the air, another of a villa lit up by the sun. Like smiles, not the big toothy monsters, but the slow silent smiles expressing content when you’re at home, alone, on the floor. Peace by yourself. If you could imagine your reality as a big puzzle made up of lots of intersecting pieces (like a puzzleboard obvs), these would be pieces outlined in light, softly glowing.


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