{"product_id":"turquoise-turtle-bay","title":"Turquoise Turtle Bay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1 of 1 | Paul Henry Devoti — Atlantis Studio, my studio home in the pueblo of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is something in the human body that responds to a sea turtle in water. Something older than language, older than culture — a recognition that crosses every boundary we have drawn between ourselves and the natural world. Turquoise Turtle Bay is built to reach that place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe background is water — not a representation of water, but water made clay. The turquoise drip technique, polished and burnished until the white clay flows through the teal like actual light through actual ocean, creates a surface of such naturalistic depth that the turtles appear to be swimming through something real. This is the agua technique at its most refined: not decorative, but environmental. The vessel becomes the bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto that living water, two sea turtles are shaved. One warm amber and brown — the hawksbill coloring, its shell given the particular geometry of the real animal — moving upward toward light. One teal and iridescent green — a different species, its shell rendered in the lustrous color of a green turtle at depth — gliding the opposite arc. The two together create a slow, ancient choreography across the curved surface of the vessel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere other Atlantis works use contemporary color as bold graphic statement, here the pigments are deployed with a painter's eye for realism. The turtles in Turquoise Turtle Bay do not symbolize the ocean. They inhabit it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Henry Devoti has said that the connection between sea turtles and humans is embedded in us all. This is the piece that proves it — because no one looks at it without feeling it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7 × 6 × 6 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ceramic with burnished turquoise drip agua slip, slip shaving, and contemporary realistic pigment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e Atlantis Studio — studio home of Paul Henry Devoti, pueblo of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 of 1\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantis Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46810464354441,"sku":null,"price":395.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0327\/6049\/6265\/files\/IMG_9375.jpg?v=1780448530","url":"https:\/\/atlantistudio.com\/products\/turquoise-turtle-bay","provider":"Atlantis Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}