Glint

“They emerge from the kiln the natural color of the clay and fairly rough to the touch… The sculptures are first painted black and then coated with as many as fourteen different acrylic colors—three or four layers of each… Price carefully begins to sand the surface of the painted sculpture. As the sandpaper removes the paint from the high points of grog, the first buried color appears… Without any suggestion of application, the color radiates out from each convex or concave surface. The tones are not darker in crevices or lighter on the most robust swelling convex surface. Every square inch of the surface is pretty much the same as every other square inch of surface.” (R. Deese, Objects to Live With: Ken Price at Chinati, Chinati Annual Newsletter, vol. 10, 2004)