Andrea Pichaida – Cozy Refuge

$2,350

SKU: 33602

Artwork Description

Andrea Pichaida – Cozy Refuge

Dimensions: 7 x 16 x 16″ sculpture
Year: 2024
Medium: clay, glaze, underglaze, and washes

For the love, passion and joy of working with clay. For the never-ending inspiration of nature and the human soul. For the love of life. My art is inspired by my life journey as a woman who grew up without a voice during dictatorship in my native Chile; and by the strong love of nature, filled with beautiful shapes, forms, lines, patterns, texture, colors and movement. These inspirations combined work as one with my hands and ideas in a constant dialog that invites me to create suggestive pieces that aim to speak a universal language, letting emotions emerge within each person.

Through my art I am able to let me inner voices, the ones that didn’t have words for so many years, come out to the world and with these objects I want to remind everybody the importance to look inside, to cherish their own existence. My clay pieces can relate to vessels and are a metaphor for a women’s world filled with stories that talk about life, and places of peace, just like a seed pod presents itself in nature.

Clay, this wonderful element that comes from mother earth, is my medium. I approach the building of a sculpture in a very intuitive and playful way, letting the process, the discovery be always open to an adventure and a challenge to myself as well as the material. I aim for those little nuances that make a difference, I can shape, punch, push, carve, texture and color for hours. Message and craft have to work together to create a unique voice.