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A mounded form in dark grey-brown clay with faces emerging from it: one in profile with closed eyes, a smaller face below, and a hand pressed across the lower face. Coiled ridges of clay wrap the base.

From Dust You Are, To Dust You Return

Materials
Air-dry clay

اذكر يا انسان انك من التراب والى التراب تعود

Remember, O human, that you are from dust and to dust you shall return — echoing Genesis 3:19.

Inspired by this verse, I created this sculpture as a reminder of where we come from and where we will return.

Between dust and dust, we create, love, and leave our mark.

The same mounded form on a sunlit windowsill, hard daylight raking across the faces and throwing sharp shadows.
Turning

In progress

Unfinished state — not the completed piece

The piece unfinished, in wet blue-grey clay, standing on a metal banding wheel in a studio.
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