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Drum of Fire

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:45:05 -0400

“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”

Henry David Thoreau

This piece is dedicated to two drummers: Jim Germond and Baba Olatunji. The precision and energy that they manifest is astonishing and energizing.

This piece is so muscular. I feel stronger just looking at it. He is singing along with the passionate rhythm of the drum. Coil built and fired clay, painted with acrylic.
I am on task, on track, completely focused on my upcoming show at Gallery in the Field, opening in December. That, and the three classes I am teaching. Much progress on all fronts.

Such an artful week: two openings and the Brandon Artists Guild Auction. A whirlwind of excellent, exciting art and dialogue.

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Cosmology: Thunderbolt of the Gods.

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:14:20 -0400

Recycled mud

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.

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From dust thou art...

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:24:52 -0400

Diva of the Eclipse

All growth depends upon activity.
There is no development physically or intellectually
without effort, and effort means work.
~ Calvin Coolidge

Ah, a wordy and insightful quotation from a laconic Vermonter!
From the pile of dried-out earthenware that I bludgeoned into smithereens, to this shapely coil pot, there has been growth. And there has been work. And it's not over yet. Many hours of clay prep, coiling, paddling, pinching and forming. The form is still incomplete. She needs fingers and toes, and she will hold the moon.
Then comes the firing and coloring.
I LOVE THIS PROCESS, and the end results as well.
She reclines, like the cliffs from which her image was taken.

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