A Siberian artist living in Moscow found herself making handmade things from clay and developing own technique of folding small swirling wearable sculptures. Let’s meet Alisa Lariushkina, who twists tiny pieces of clay every day and can’t stop.
One day Alisa was surfing the internet one day while working in the office and suddenly saw the floral tree made from an air dry clay which actually blows her mind till now.
Inspired by the new material, she gave it a try and after three years she was already satisfied with her own technique: „Step by step I started doing unusual flowers with curled petals until I made something that looked like a bird. I can tell you that I came to it quite spontaneously. Since then I have improved technology, found the best materials and made my products more durable,“ says Alisa whose work is often compared to paper quilling, but that’s far away from the truth.
Alisa gained a huge community around herself on social media and has been recently creating much bigger pieces. “I promised myself to try something much bigger than an animal brooch and I think in the end it turned out successfully. Now I mostly make framed landscapes and underwater sceneries, still from my favorite Japanese air-dry clay,” says Alisa.
Among her original works you can notice Van Gogh's paintings: “I love to recreate them. I also tried to recreate The great wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai. My next goal is Monet, we'll see,” she adds.
