Altered Swans Series

Black Series, Swans 25-27

The Black Series (Sets 8-11) are a journey into one’s reflectance and self-guidance. Throughout my art career I have been in a constant conversation with my paintings of a black nature. I believe that they sit in a limbo state between worlds where emotion does not exist, only thought and contemplation. It is a well and I aim to fill it with long thoughts, old thoughts, and things that are on my mind so that there is room for new growth and new days. I can pour my heart into this space, in this void where I am accepted. Here, I can speak freely through my gestures and carvings. There is nothing to judge, noone to care, only me and my road to self-acceptance.

Artist: Max Brown

Important Note –  There are two cracks on the wing of the large piece, number 27/55, this is visible in the images. Max chose some bisque(the unglazed ceramic body) with what would normally be considered faults. These were worked in to series, as what began as a hair line crack opened up during the glaze firing – Mathew enjoyed learning some new tricks, as the story was woven into these sets, and individual pieces.

“this was an incredible working of, what seemed a hopeless situation, into a natural finish that hides the cracks, and it shouldn’t!!! – there was some unearthly element that seems to shine by accepting it, in this Black Series”

Max mentioned ‘ life is full of these moment we choose, often without realizing, sometimes blind to the obvious”