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For thousands of years, in many cultures across the globe, people have made symbolic associations between the human body and ceramic vessels. The body can seem to be a container for the spirit, while pots have necks, bellies, feet. This pot by Alison Britton echoes the form of a human torso and brings that ancient tradition into the contemporary world. Britton’s pots are slab-built and expressively painted; she explores the forms of vessels, intending us to investigate them with our eyes and minds rather than use them. She describes her work as “a still-life of a pot done in clay".