Ant Ceramic Art on Etsy:

myrmepropagandist

There are some really excellent pieces of art. Maaan if I were a rich person with a house with a place to put a $600 vase I know exactly which vase I would have. :

https://www.etsy.com/listing/8838238/ant-picnic-6x6-ceramic-art-tile
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1661330421/stunning-casas-grandes-mata-ortiz-olla
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4393721145/ceramic-sgraffito-bowl-with-ants?

I just wanted someone else to look at the nice ant art. Maybe it will inspire YOU to make ant art.

Is a house really a home without some ants?

Lew Perin

@futurebird ...let alone a picnic!

myrmepropagandist

This vase is perfect. A better vase cannot be made.

Jo - pièce de résistance

@futurebird I have only ever wanted one tattoo and that is of a trail of ants along my hip, so I could always say I had “ants in my pants” and it would make me laugh.

bituur esztreym

@futurebird
and who made it! Mata Ortiz has an extraordinary story. i visited a show of Mata Ortiz pottery once when i lived in Mexico, it's simply gorgeous, each peace is a marvel, and their style, i love it!

myrmepropagandist

@bituur_esztreym

It was made by Guadalupe Gallegos.... I thought Mata Ortiz was a name at first, but it's the type of pottery. Very amazing art.

bituur esztreym

@futurebird
yes my post is ambiguous too. Mata Ortiz is 1. a city in Chihuahua State, and 2. the style of pottery they're making, reviving the ancient techniques and colors and design of the pottery of an archeological site nearby. the precursor and initiatior (40-50 years ago or so) is Juan Quezada Celado, and now with many artists it's striving again!

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@futurebird

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myrmepropagandist

@LevZadov

I've been following @potterybyosa for a long time and love her work. This may or MAY NOT be a part of a subtle psychological influence campaign to get her to make ant stuff.

bituur esztreym

@futurebird
was lucky enough to find in the show i told you of in fist post, a small.. but wonderful, and affordable piece (sort a vase, thinner in shape, geometrical motives, a very peculiar irregular opening form) i brought back to France as marriage present to my son-in-law and his wife!

bituur esztreym

@futurebird
in the 1st 100 or so images of a search, the nearest i find to the vase i bought and offered would be this one, except "mine" was without carvingin the design.
i bought for myself the nº of Artes de Mexico dedicated to Mata Ortiz. sold out but the cover and two doubles pages visible here: https://artesdemexico.com/shop/products/45-cer%C3%A1mica-de-mata-ortiz-agotado

myrmepropagandist

@bituur_esztreym

I love that people are still making more vases like these.

bituur esztreym

@futurebird me too. and they still go and find the special type and color of clays in the same old places around the city, and so on..

Sashin

@futurebird the queen on the top makes me weirdly happy

myrmepropagandist

@sashin

I think it's on the bottom... like a surprise.

But I think having her there kind of explains why they are... like that.

der.hans

@bituur_esztreym @futurebird spouse had a Mata Ortiz artist come into the classroom to demo for the students a couple times

incredible work

myrmepropagandist

I found another remarkable ant vase. This one has a charming surprise inside.

It's a harvester ant!

Is it silly to have an ant making bread? I assure you it is not. Harvester ants crush the seeds they find and make them into a paste known as "ant bread" I suppose they don't bake it though...

Vase by Patricia Jones Jemez of Pueblo NM. She made many ant themed vases.