A three‑band plein‑air landscape rendered in clay, this first plate in the series carries the weight and drama of a storm‑gathering sky. The lower band settles into a grounded, desert‑earth texture — warm, steady, and tactile. Above it rises a darker, more fractured middle band, echoing the silhouette of distant mountains under shifting light. The top band holds the mood of the piece: a muted, gray‑blue glaze with subtle variations that read as a sky on the verge of breaking open, heavy with weather, charged with atmosphere.
The whole work feels like a moment just before rain — the horizon tightening, the air thickening, the landscape bracing. It’s a storm‑sky study in clay, captured in three elemental strokes.