Rose B. Simpson’s Droughtcore Sculptures

Rose B. Simpson: Storyteller, 2021, ceramic, glaze, steel, leather, and epoxy, 67 by 29 by 26 inches. The children depicted in Storyteller (2021) are building inside a building. Climbing a lattice of thin steel rods, they make their own structure comprising bodies on top of bodies as they ascend the metal structure that on occasion pierces them through. They are gentle and rounded; the scaffolding they unite with is angular, jutting. These little ones encircle a larger totem-like person, coveri