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Rick Dillingham built his vessels in the traditional pueblo fashion of coils, not using a potter's wheel. He chose this most elemental form of construction, perhaps, because of his absolute love of pueblo pottery. His palette of colors soothes the visual senses without a shock to the system. One cannot simply look at his pottery, it demands to be held and caressed as the sensual object that it is.

The top of the vessel is glazed with color highlights of shades of light green, in an arrangement that produces a striking balance in asymmetry.  The jar is typical of Dillingham's early works while he was attending the University of New Mexico. The top layer is a round relatively flat slab with a hole in the center.  The underside is comprised of strips of clay crisscrossed in an apple pie crust arrangement. 

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