Clown vase

This ceramic vessel reimagines the Etruscan Canopic Jar, originally designed to hold ashes and often depicted as a pregnant woman, embodying the tension between life and death. Rather than containing ashes, this version is filled with flowers, shifting the focus toward life while exploring the paradox of joy and sorrow through the figure of a sad clown. Fashion-inspired additions of fabric, lace, and pom-poms, along with real piercings, push the piece toward maximalism and texture, blending beauty with grotesque expression. The result is a vessel that reflects the fragility and contradictions of existence, adapting an ancient form into a contemporary meditation on emotion, performance, and mortality.