Description
This handmade clay spirit vessel wears a weathered red and charcoal finish, the pigment dragged and scraped across a raw textured disc sealed over a single Abyss Collection coin. A small aperture is punched through the face and a rope cord loops over the crown.
The disc face is built from coarse, layered clay, ridged and torn so the surface never sits flat. Red pigment grips the raised ridges and rubs thin across the high points, while charcoal grey and pale ash push up through the broken channels beneath it. The finish reads as scorched rather than painted, ember caught mid-burn against cold grey. The disc is fixed to a squat clay base, and the whole object stands as a freestanding display piece with the coin held permanently inside. A handmade clay spirit vessel of this kind sits as a one of a kind collector’s piece, weighted and tactile in the hand.
In the collection’s telling, Emberhusk is the residue left when a fire has been watched too long. It is cast as a low spirit that settles into hearth ash and banked coals, waking only in the last red hour before a fire dies. It marks the place where warmth turned to threat. The aperture is the eye it watches through, the rope the tether that keeps it bound to the vessel, and the red bleeding through the grey is the heat it refuses to give up.
Each vessel is sealed as its own object and will never be repeated.
Display stand shown in photos is for photography only and not included.
