Video interview with Sasha:
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Artist's Statement
My inspiration comes from microscopic images of various cells and microorganisms as the basis of all life. I am intrigued by dichotomy between the enormous beauty of these images and the fears or repulsiveness that people often have when faced with viruses or bacteria. I love the idea of questioning our relationship with the world inside of us. In the same way as microorganisms are multiplying and spreading, so are my pieces. I find great excitement in making yet another similar but totally unique piece. My work is very much process driven with images and forms almost spontaneously coming as I work. I mostly work with white stoneware coated with terra sigillata. I use slip trailing, sgraffito and various commercial and custom glazes to build intricate surfaces. All my work is fired to cone 6 in an electric kiln. Sasha Bakaric Resume:
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News and Observer Article about Sasha
Marianita Faraino, artist: Sasha inspires us to consider, from another position, the beauty of something that is destructive to the health of our cells, yet the cells of viruses and cancer are simply doing what they must do to survive. I always think of them as uninvited hosts that supplant and are nothing but totally evasive and destructive…but here we see the organized beauty of yet another element of "nature". It is like watching the gathering elements of a powerful storm and standing in awe of the beauty of the extraordinarily dark values of the sky, the clouds, the lightening et al and finding yourself paralyzed by the feel and smell of the wind and rain…most certainly a dichotomy.