About
Elise Mackanych
Ukrainian-American potter, painter and film photographer based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Inspired by the fertility and femininity of pomegranates represented in Ukrainian culture and many others, coming from the same dirt in which I shape every day. All work is hand painted, hand thrown and hand held.
The fragrant pomegranate is
a crystallized sky.
(Each seed is a star,
each veil a sunset.)
A dry sky, compressed
by the claw of the years.
The pomegranate is like an
old, parchment-like breast,
whose nipple became a star
to illuminate the field.
It is a tiny beehive
with a bloodied honeycomb, for its bees formed it
with the mouths of women.
That is why, when it bursts, it laughs with the purples of a thousand lips.
excerpt from“Canción oriental”
by Federico García Lorca - 1921
