SMART PLANET

“Smart Planet” is a visual plea for the world to regain its respect for Science and allow scientists, the modern alchemists to continue their efforts to salvage and regain the value of our resources that, hopefully, may restore that which we inhabitants have not yet destroyed.

Mara Superior, "Smart Planet: Homage to Science", 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5", high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, “Smart Planet: Homage to Science”, 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5″, high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, "Smart Planet: Homage to Science", 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5", high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, “Smart Planet: Homage to Science”, 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5″, high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, "Smart Planet: Homage to Science", 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5", high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, “Smart Planet: Homage to Science”, 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5″, high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, "Smart Planet: Homage to Science", 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5", high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, “Smart Planet: Homage to Science”, 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5″, high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, "Smart Planet: Homage to Science", 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5", high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, “Smart Planet: Homage to Science”, 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5″, high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, "Smart Planet: Homage to Science", 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5", high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, “Smart Planet: Homage to Science”, 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5″, high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, "Smart Planet: Homage to Science", 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5", high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).

Mara Superior, “Smart Planet: Homage to Science”, 2009, 20 x 10.5 x 10.5″, high-fired porcelain, ceramic oxides, underglaze, glaze, wood, gold leaf, tin pencil-sharpener (feet). Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (2019.7.2).