我的许多工作都是为了纪念我生命中女性的力量和韧性。

Zizipho Poswa是一位来自开普敦的陶艺家，她的大型作品灵感来自于她作为当代南非科萨妇女和艺术家的个人经历。Zizipho Poswa的陶瓷作品体现了优雅、美丽、精致、抽象，同时也体现了Zizipho Poswa对色彩、质感以及图案的热爱，表达了她对手工工艺的欣赏。

Zizipho Poswa is a Cape Town-based ceramicist whose large-scale work takes inspiration from her own personal history as a Xhosa woman and artist living in contemporary South Africa. Zizipho Poswa ceramics embody elegance, beauty, delicacy, abstraction, Zizipho Poswa love for colour, texture and pattern, and her appreciation for handmade processes.

近二十年来，Zizipho Poswa一直在用陶艺雕刻古老的故事。她经常使用粘土，但她也会尝试其他不寻常的材料，比如青铜。Zizipho Poswa用自己的纺织知识手绘，为她的作品创造了美丽的图案和独特的花纹。她创造的作品通常都很大，并以一种非常沉思的直觉，诠释了祖先故事的魅力。

For nearly two decades, South African ceramicist and designer Zizipho Poswa has been carving ancient stories in ceramics. She’s frequently relied on clay, but she experiments with other unusual material too, like bronze. Zizipho Poswa uses her textile knowledge to create beautiful patterns and unique patterns for her work. The pieces she creates are often large and, with a very contemplative intuition, interpret the charm of ancestral stories.

Zizipho Poswa的作品从不触及表面，而是深入挖掘，剔除对其文化的刻板印象，记录她作为一名科萨族女性不断发展的经历。Zizipho Poswa 超凡脱俗的雕塑作品是这些女性身上散发出的爱、关怀、坚韧和尊严的具体体现，这些女性是每个非洲国家的真正支柱。

Never one to just scratch the surface, Poswa’s work dives deep, sifting through stereotypes about her culture and chronicling her evolving experiences as a Xhosa woman. Zizipho Poswa’s transcendent sculptures are a physical manifestation of the love, care, fortitude, and dignity that radiates off these women, the true pillars of every African nation.

Images courtesy of Southern Guild