Sorrowful blue mask on Conrad’s face
Someone greedy beside the Holy Mother.
Conrad’s masks are sublime, like hot shrieks and
strange deep deep sea dwellers. They look as if one
might meet them whilst out wearing a snorkel… One
knows these masks as hidden aspects of the self –
the parts one experiences under the covers.
– Miro
MASKS INHABITING CONRAD’S KITCHEN
Earthenware clay masks by Conrad, fired at about 1050 - 1100F. Ball clay & oxides applied as paint while clay is leather-hard, before firing. The coral-like surface of some of the masks is made meticulously & meditatively by the artist using a sharp, needle-like tool, one hole at a time - a million deaths, a million lives. Masks of coral.
STATE OF INGRATITUDE
JADE BEAUTY