Mary Rogers is known for her hand coiled works that celebrate organic forms through her many studies of aquatic and terrestrial motifs. The piece we look at today appears worn by tide, a delicate dappling of blue dance between deep bruising.
The darkness suggests greater depth than the piece truly contains, drawing the eye inwards to no resolution.

One’s gaze deflects off centre, instead drifts across the nuanced patterns born through reaction-diffusion, a system that provides complexity yet also stirs unease. Where in one organic form it may provide the stable rhythm of zebra stripes, in this, it provides only blurred features, visual delirium held loosely by blue anchors. The pieces smooth edge provides no balance, but a loose frame, echoing the final ring of blue that contains the unruly stain.

Where Rogers works is often modeled on oceanic forms, some manage to step beyond. At first impression appear regular, at closer inspection, they are otherworldly. Perhaps akin to those forms yet to be found in great depths, artifacts of trenches, shells of the extinct, the undiscovered. She extends beyond biomimicry and into synthesis, creating a world of new objects, perhaps, in milenia mistaken for documentation rather than creation.