Monday, November 14, 2011

bye bye hippo

Lately I’ve been working on a series of urns based on the narrative of whom or what could be contained inside. Here is a hippopotamus urn I’ve been working on, to clarify it is not an urn for a hippopotamus (I love hippos). The detail is a pattern made of “no diving” warning signs and the knob is a winged hourglass that symbolizes death and reminds the viewer that their time is coming (especially if you go swimming with hippos).