This ceramic lamp is composed of wheel thrown ovoid-like parts that were joined and altered to resemble a cactus. The object can balance in three different ways giving alternate viewpoints. It was finished with a black semi-vitrified engobe on the outside with a white crawl glaze in various thicknesses. A white glossy glaze on the inside gives a higher reflection from the lamp that is hidden on one of the ovoid “limps”.
Giannis Zois masters the art of ceramic, as he would describe it as a Greek common language. In his Athens-based studio, the ceramicist explores the t ...
