Pinch/coiled ironstone with applied coloured vitreous slip/oxide. Interior alkaline egyptian blue earthenware glaze. Inspired by Dogon art/architecture and Orion mythology and the mud/adobe buildings/mosques(Djenne, Timbuktu, etc), of western Africa, etc. Dogon drawings of the Orion/Sirius star system often incorporate flower-like images of stars. Also relates to other work which incorporates imagery relating to the sea(anemones, star-fish, coral, hydrothermal vents, etc). 2009. Shown at Rye Art Gallery. Private collection.