Vessel I, "Woven Vessel of My Soul" series
"Woven Vessel of My Soul" — a series of works in which scale and delicacy enter into a tense dialogue.
For the artist, this is a new experience: working with porcelain on such a scale — the sculpture reaches nearly one metre in height.
The vessel is woven by hand from countless porcelain threads: each turn is like a memory, each loop like a trace of the past. It becomes a repository of the soul, and the light within — its voice: passing through the weave, it becomes visible. In this fragile structure, one wants to hold on to what matters most — that which usually remains unseen.
Natalia Makarova is an artist from Samara and a member of the Creative Union of Russian Artists. She works with her own sculpting technique using clay coils to imitate woven rag rugs, creating sculptures that become vessels of memory.
At the core of Natalia's work lie childhood memories spent at her grandmother's house in the countryside. The feeling of warmth, coziness, and the simplicity of rural life — the scents of the bathhouse and freshly mown hay — became an anchor for the artist in an unsteady present. The awareness that this time cannot be brought back brings pain — a kind of nostalgia for a lost paradise, a bittersweet happiness. She tenderly preserves these feelings through objects: braided rugs, headscarves, downy shawls, and domestic utensils. For Makarova, this is an inexhaustible source of inspiration.
Working with clay, the artist experiences it as a material that holds history and the memory of ages. Through dialogue with clay, she comes to know and heal herself, combining different types of clay and exploring the plasticity of movement in sculpture. Drawing inspiration from the forms of Russian ceramic vessels of the 19th and 20th centuries, she reinterprets them through her coiling technique — a reference to her grandmother's rugs made from strips of old clothing.
Thus, through her art, Natalia Makarova preserves the bond between generations, transmitting the memory of her roots and of Russian peasant life. This gives her grounding in an era of change and becomes a way of saving that memory for future generations.
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