Blauluft

Ocarina

Partially glazed mixed Italian clay
Twined clay coils

L 16 cm

Based on that Scoppola has named many of his fish sculptures through a play with the Swedish language (with some paraphrasing of the Swedish vowels å, ä and ö) combined with characteristics in the different sculpture bodies such as shape, color settings, expressions, or elements from the creating process, Blauluft has received its name partly due to its blue glazing, partly due to its characteristics as a musical instrument:

“All the ocarinas are an hommage to the air that I use for the pneumatic shaping, to give her a voice.
I like making fish shaped ocarinas because fish are silent animals. We have the idiomatic expression “muto come un pesce”, silent as a fish. So there is something paradoxical in a fish shaped source if sound, and something tender in kissing a fish.”