Still lifes, lively stills
Star-Bulletin Staff
Scratching the Surface" has been in the making since artists Paul and Marie Kodama took a trip to China two years ago. He shot black-and-white pictures of buildings, people, landscapes and ruins while she visited innumerable ceramic factories and studios.
The photographs from that trip are on view at the Queen Emma Gallery, but the ceramic sculptures in the show did not grow directly out of the China trip. Instead, the rustic-looking sculptures are inspired by the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi's nearly abstract still-life work.
