Naomi Urn Tall

The Naomi Urn Tall is 34cm across and 46cm high, in black textured clay. It is a decorative vessel and cannot be planted into. Dried flowers, branches and similar arrangements are what it is for.

An urn is a different object from a planter and this one is honest about it. There is no drainage and no liner, so it holds dried material, branches or nothing at all, and reading it as sculpture rather than as a container is the right approach.

The texture is what carries the piece at this scale. A smooth black vessel 46cm tall is a silhouette and little else; a worked clay surface catches light unevenly down its height, which is what keeps a tall dark form from flattening against the wall behind it.

Dried branches suit the proportions better than dried flowers. The height wants something with vertical line rather than mass, and bare stems above a heavy base is the classical arrangement for a vessel this shape.