I consider the fragility first, rather than the contour of its curves, the ribbons of reflected light in its glaze. For me, it becomes a study: shape hollowed, the earth’s once-pliant, heavy, wet clay kiln-fired to brittle bisque. This solitary pear I have kept beside a museum postcard: Cezanne’s plate of three, stilled to perfection […]
Kristina Moriconi
Kristina Moriconi is a writer and visual artist whose work has appeared in a variety of literary journals and magazines including Sonora Review, Brevity, Lumina, Bellevue Literary Review, and About Place Journal. She is the winner of Terrain.org’s 11th Annual Nonfiction Contest (2021) and her lyric narrative In the Cloakroom of Proper Musings was published by Atmosphere Press in August 2020. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two dogs.