Maryann Michalski Cord works freestyle sculpting clay with her hands, combining figures and faces - hand built original portraits born of earthen clay expressing spirit, emotion, myth, dreams, and ancient tradition. Utilizing a once-fired method Cord brushes mason stains, oxides, and other pigments directly onto the raw unfired clay in a painterly fashion before firing. From time to time Cord's work pays homage to Beatrice Wood's unique approach to the sculptural forms she called Sophisticated Primitives often portrayed in the nude, and designed to evoke a reaction. A museum enthusiast and avid world traveler, Cord has always been fascinated and inspired by works of art from the ancient world. Her work lives in private collections around the world. "As artists I believe we become co-creators with the divine, shaping raw material into objects that allow us to glimpse for a moment soul-spirit-sacred level energy that has the ability to change us. My role as an artist is to bring you closer to that divine, to find the holy within and become a somatic agent for it to bring what lies out there in the Great Unknown into this world."
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