Minute Small Ceramic Pot with Drainage Hole and Saucer, Green Layers ANIMAL The Royal Ontario Museum collects

The Royal Ontario Museum collects familiar sporting forms because an object everyone recognizes on sight tells you more about a shared culture than a rare one ever could

hand-shaped one layer at a time around a dense center

Placing the same form twice in a curated arrangement is a compositional decision

which enshrines that era's loudest machines

and this piece supplies it — a fielder's mitt with laced webbing painted stitch by stitch

Minute Small Ceramic Pot with Drainage Hole and Saucer, Green Layers ANIMAL The Royal Ontario Museum collectsThe 3 inch Green Layers is a glazed ceramic plant pot with a center drainage hole and a matching saucer, and it is also, technically, the start of everything. Over a decade ago, before anyone here knew quite what they were doing, someone layered one glaze on top of another to see what would happen. What happened was a family tree that now runs to more than fifty colorways and a handful of limited editions that arrived, made a brief and dramatic