Archive for November, 2008
Map of the Arab World; 8th Century(?)
I just love this painting.
I keep meaning to do some variations of it on a run of platters. Maybe after this glaze cycle…
music of my mind…
Published November 28, 2008 Click it Leave a CommentTags: Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges
Buttered Bird
The Bird- she is in. We are having a late feast and I’m in charge of the turkey.
I’ve combined a few recipes, brined the bird over night, got a giblet stock going for the gravy, stuffed the bird with veg, shrouded her with cheesecloth soaked in dry white wine and butter and we’re off!
I’ll see if I can keep posting photos as the bird roasts.
Shrouded Bird
Peeling back shroud
see the face?... no, me either.
Quiet, the bird is resting.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Yunomi?
I’m so pleased to be a part of next year’s Yunomi Show at AKAR Gallery. Now I’m not sure that I have ever made anything that I would call a Yunomi- but I like a challenge. I made a small test run this week. The above image was the best of this first bunch.
I worked into the wee hours tonite, finishing up all the wet pots I had in the studio. I thought it would be nice to devote tomorrow entirely to my turkey.
Then it’s a bisque and three glaze kilns between friday and wednesday for a couple shows next week.
Below are a few shots of the soup bowls after painting:
- Ogata Kenzan -Incense Box; ca.1731-1743
This is the first pot I remember associating with the great Japanese Potter, Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743). I must have been in Scholes Library with a big stack of books piled next to my cozy chair. I remember feeling that I had just seen something special. There seemed so much contained expression in this simple, tiny object. This was the kind of pots I wanted to make.
As I work in my studio I try to be guided by great objects of the past and the artists that made them. I don’t wish to duplicate great objects, but to create pots that dwell inside a lineage with them. I like to imagine that if a pot of mine was placed next to a great pot, like the one above, a conversation could take place.
The Kenzan piece was on my mind today as I finished up this little spice jar:
Kashan, Iran; 12thc
I’m going to make a few boards of soup bowls today.
These are a few pots I’ll be thinking of while I’m at it.
I was quite pleased with how this little pear shaped jar turned out.
blossom-gaggle mug
pasta bowl
Off to the studio…
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