Ant Ceramic Art on Etsy:

[bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org]

@futurebird
in the 1st 100 or so images of a search, the nearest i find to the vase i bought and offered would be this one, except "mine" was without carvingin the design.
i bought for myself the nº of Artes de Mexico dedicated to Mata Ortiz. sold out but the cover and two doubles pages visible here: https://artesdemexico.com/shop/products/45-cer%C3%A1mica-de-mata-ortiz-agotado

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@bituur_esztreym

I love that people are still making more vases like these.

[bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org]

@futurebird me too. and they still go and find the special type and color of clays in the same old places around the city, and so on..

[sashin@veganism.social]

@futurebird the queen on the top makes me weirdly happy

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@sashin

I think it's on the bottom... like a surprise.

But I think having her there kind of explains why they are... like that.

[lufthans@mastodon.social]

@bituur_esztreym @futurebird spouse had a Mata Ortiz artist come into the classroom to demo for the students a couple times

incredible work

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

I found another remarkable ant vase. This one has a charming surprise inside.

It's a harvester ant!

Is it silly to have an ant making bread? I assure you it is not. Harvester ants crush the seeds they find and make them into a paste known as "ant bread" I suppose they don't bake it though...

Vase by Patricia Jones Jemez of Pueblo NM. She made many ant themed vases.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4302231513/jemez-pueblo-pottery-storytelling-ant

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

I could write a whole book on "ants in pottery" ...

[goaty@meow.social]

@futurebird this is insanely cute!!

[goaty@meow.social]

@futurebird i bet you could fit a lot of ants in even a pretty small pot

[grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange]

@futurebird this makes me think of the cartoon High Note

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/HighNote

[levzadov@kolektiva.social]

@futurebird

We're waiting.

[neckspike@indiepocalypse.social]

@futurebird Ants would bake bread if they learned how to harness fire without cooking themselves

[megsouth@c.im]

@futurebird immediately thought that was a Pueblo piece! It’s gorgeous!

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@goaty

Ants haven't figured out pottery that we know of yet. But they do sculpt clay:

Indian Harvester ants, Pheidole sykesii create levies around their nest entrance so that when it rains the flood waters do not enter, but rather flow around it while they stay dry underground.

They build in response to the water so you can tell which direction the water comes form during the rains based on the height of the walls.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@goaty

I've been in pottery classes and watched (human) people struggle to hand build a cup this nice and smooth and symmetrical.

And they weren't even working on a cup the size of a small house.

[goaty@meow.social]

@futurebird oh wow, i wasn't aware of this at all, that's so damn cool! ants are awesome lil critters!

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@goaty

I think these nests show how they are related to other wasps. We just get to see the things that winged wasps make more often.

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@futurebird @goaty The internet has messed me up enough that the first thing that entered my broken brain was ‘it’s missing the ring’.

[asweetgentleman@mstdn.social]

@futurebird @goaty Ants will never cease to amaze me!