Chuck Aydlett is known for bothfunctional and sculpural earthenware (using a majolica glaze) and stoneware pottery. He uses various techniques including casting and hand-building to create cups, teapots, pitchers, and complex sculptures referencing human, animal and geometric forms. The dreamlike and surreal detailed drawings on his work are executed with under-glaze pencils, sometimes accented by silver like metallic lozenges and paints. Aydlett uses personal surreal imagery with mixes of imaginary, historic, and contemporary references. In the second decade of the 20th century Aydlett began to attach a reflective thin black plastic ?puddle? form to the underside of a ceramic object as an integral part of the object. The matt underside of this ?puddle? form is signed and acts like a plinth to separate the sculptural vessel form its surroundings.
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