Cynthia Consentino

Caress is part of the series of Face Vases. The pieces can be arranged in different ways, kissing, caressing, or upside-down to function as flower vases. The series explores gender and relationships.

Topsy Turvy Poodle speaks to the upended state of the world. It ponders the effects of man on the environment, our intervention with animal life (breeding), and investigates our relationship to the natural world.

The Kiss is the first in a series exploring interactions and emotions between two people in a relationship. Each vase depicts a head. The heads fit together like a puzzle - one head literally holding up the other. Each head can also sit in a different orientation, creating a new interaction or interpretation as well as offering the possibility of functioning as a flower vase.The series also experiments with flattening volumes and depicting the face more as an assemblage of reliefs versus fully rendered forms.