4 posts tagged “ceramic art”
I have been working SO INTENSELY on this project... An elaborate grant proposal that I almost got. I was one of three finalists in the state, but not the final one. Darn!
What I pitched was an installation of tile, each one created from casts of the hands of townspeople.
The resulting tiles would then have been incorporated into a monument. The tiles that have words on them have phrases direct from the minds of the townspeople. Memories and images that evoke the values of the town. Perhaps I'll mount these on the side of our gallery. That would be kind of cool.
The monument I designed had a sort of Stonehenge look to it. It would have created a gathering place for sharing and contemplation.
What I pitched was an installation of tile, each one created from casts of the hands of townspeople.
The resulting tiles would then have been incorporated into a monument. The tiles that have words on them have phrases direct from the minds of the townspeople. Memories and images that evoke the values of the town. Perhaps I'll mount these on the side of our gallery. That would be kind of cool.
The monument I designed had a sort of Stonehenge look to it. It would have created a gathering place for sharing and contemplation.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
-Charles Darwin.
The planet spins, wheels turn on the highway and the calendar page flutters, hovering on the brink a new year.
Change is constant, change is imminent. The challenge is to choose change. Determine the most useful and constructive change, then enact that choice.
Since the opening at Gallery•in•the•Field on December 6, I have been immersed in the season. Friends & family; wrapping up classes at CSC and CCV; mailing boxes hither and yon across the country, etc. etc.
Now a wintry sun is about to set on my first quiet day at home in ages. In the past week and a half, our houseful of family has been inundated with swift and drifting snow, deluged with unseasonal, warm rain, beset with strong winds... The creek is brimming, perhaps about to flood, but with tonight's bone chilling cold that becomes less likely, and all visitors are home safely.
The forecast is snow and cold through New Years Eve, then sun on the first day of 2009.
My muse is shivering. She is in the process of re-grouping, re-vitalizing projects left bobbing in the wake of the show, preparing for the next semester, which will have a much better schedule than last. Very promising.
Time now for a cup of tea, and cozy retreat with the cats and my new book: Enclosure, by Goldsworthy. Yay!
Loving this new work. It has been a grueling grind preparing for this show. Teaching way too much, sleeping not enough. My hands are sandpaper from clay and paint, but it is energizing to watch the pieces grow, take them out of the kiln and bring them to life with color.
Have been working with a new clay that has less grog. It fires a resonant red color.
These two pieces are called Diva of the Canyon and Duet.
Why am I so driven to make these things?
Trying to find a good quotation on "work"... none seem relevant to the gooey grunt work process of recycling clay...
Turning mud into art is a lengthy and laborious process.
Watched Thunderbolt of the Gods tonight while wedging clay and adding coils to the new sculpture. I need to watch it again and take notes. Astonishing presentation by serious scientists about mythology and the universe as electrical. Magnetic fields threaded through space. Visually beautiful.
Probably Sarah Palin wouldn't agree with their theories.
It's really annoying that they have a woman riding on the shoulders of suffragettes and feminists who is anything but a suffragette or feminist.
What she represents is not why they sacrificed so much and worked so diligently.
Turning mud into art is a lengthy and laborious process.
Watched Thunderbolt of the Gods tonight while wedging clay and adding coils to the new sculpture. I need to watch it again and take notes. Astonishing presentation by serious scientists about mythology and the universe as electrical. Magnetic fields threaded through space. Visually beautiful.
Probably Sarah Palin wouldn't agree with their theories.
It's really annoying that they have a woman riding on the shoulders of suffragettes and feminists who is anything but a suffragette or feminist.
What she represents is not why they sacrificed so much and worked so diligently.
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