Smartphone Vases Los Poblanos Man Bar Soap

Los Poblanos Man Bar Soap blends sage

Ilse Crawford

This pair—one tall and stout the other short and wide—are like two objects caught in each other's orbit: both different but also inseparable

The exterior

As a child

Smartphone Vases Los Poblanos Man Bar SoapThis piece is cast in solid bronze by Nancy Pearce in her studio in Los Angeles, California. In Pearce's words "I seek to create an archive of everyday objects by casting them in durable solid bronze so that future archaeologists will have a few pieces of the puzzle to decode from my limited time on earth starting in the 1970s. When the original objects are long gone, the bronze artifacts will remain"