Li'l Tuffy Adrift in a Sea of Peril, 2019
MALCOLM MOBUTU SMITH
Li'l Tuffy Adrift in a Sea of Peril, 2019
Stoneware, slip and glaze
9 x 8 x 8.5 in
This piece features a character called Li’l Tuffy created by my mother for a cartoon coloring book published in 1971 by Johnson Publishing (of Ebony, Jet and Essence magazine fame). This work has an original image of Li’l Tuffy, created and drawn by me, ‘floating’ on the surface of the vessel in the midst of angry glaze colors and action. -Malcolm Mobutu Smith
