
Making of Ymir, Paaliaq and Tarvos / April 15th to April 20th 2025
I am making my way down the list of moons and have arrived at the non-Greek mythology moons.
Ymir is a retrograde moon named after the ancestor of the frost giants in Norse mythology.
Paaliaq and Tarvos are both irregular moons orbiting Saturn in a prograde motion. Tarvos belongs to the Gallic group and is named after a god in the shape of a bull carrying three cranes on his back. Paaliaq, on the other hand, is part of the Inuit group of moons around Saturn. It was named after a fictional shaman.
I made these three moons using heavily grogged black clay and covered two of them with porcelain slip which I applied with a sponge.
These vases were made in my home studio, and were finished on Easter Sunday. We don't really celebrate Easter, but we did spend some time gardening in the pleasant weather.