-Circa '70- Pitcher 1960

Donald Colflesh made this Pitcher, Circa '70 out of silver and wood. There’s an attention to form and an almost industrial aesthetic, but really this is all about craft. The handle and spoon are made of wood, and the pitcher itself is highly polished silver. The silver gives off this incredible light; you see how the light catches it and reflects? When you look closely, you notice the way the surface is crafted. The reflective surface doesn’t conceal the artist’s process, it emphasizes it. There’s an almost surrealist quality to the elongation of the silver spoon that stretches to the base. This elongated feature reminds me of the surrealist Alberto Giacometti, who was interested in abstraction, but with a specific focus on the elongation of the figure, and this piece also seems to play on that idea. Ultimately, art is an ongoing conversation.