This project displays a functional ceramic vase with a niche sculpted in the center. The vase is covered in a black glaze with an oil painting in the niche. The painting depicts a girl fighting with this box she is trapped in as a sculpted set of manly fingers creep in from the top of the vase. This exemplifies the patriarchal standards forced onto women.

My process for this piece consisted of throwing a vase then once it was somewhat dry, I pushed a niche into the body of the vase. Then I fired it in black glaze leaving the niche raw clay. I also sculpted fingers and fired them with no glaze. Next, I primed and painted the niche and fingers in oil paints. Finally, I attached the fingers at the top of the vase with adhesive.