Clarice

Clarice uses yoga as a means of unwinding mentally after a day at her job on an IT helpdesk. Lately she’d been getting irrationally annoyed with some of her class members, and after spending all day on the phone at work she was finding the noises in her immediate yoga environment consistently irksome. Thank goodness for the noise-cancelling bluetooth ear-buds she borrowed from her flatmate, discretely hidden behind her star earrings. No more Kevin, who is normally in the front row, breathing very noisily through his nose in a sort of whistle. No more Chantelle, who quickly gets sweaty and makes involuntary squeaking sounds on her rather cheap rubber yoga mat whenever she moves. And no more constantly questioning why Sandra refuses to do anything about her persistent cough and clearing of her throat. “This is a yoga class!!” she used to scream to herself in her head. “It’s meant to be relaxing!!” And now it is, except for the other members in the class. They are being distracted when Clarice hums to herself loudly and tuneless at strangely inappropriate times, of which she is seemingly unaware.

Clarice is also an articulated ceramic wall puppet and she is modelled by hand in stoneware clay, twice fired, decorated with ceramic glazes, and finished with a cold glaze. She is approximately 32 cm long, and can hang on the wall by nail, hook or tack.