Seeking, Sought

Navarro Beach:

February 15, 2016

Rock Steady

Old clay:
See Survivor sequence from 2013.

Kraken House

Classroom Clay in the Wild

Three pieces from an experiment in last term's English 1A.

Navarro Beach & Rivermouth

Checking out a future paddling and fishing spot.

Beach Salad

Beach salad.

(See Sappho on "beach rubble" via Mary Barnard.)

Hollow-eyed,

Tight-lipped:

This fish . . . .

Garnish for gulls.

Someone else's tower.

Rock on.

Fisherman setting forth.

My clayfellow Aegir . . . .

Flow.

 Ducks-in-a-row.

Life Upon Life Upon Limpet

Agate Beach,
West Marin.

Clay Play at the Beach

Gemini, Sleeping--A Mask:
sculpture mix;
denim, transparent brown, and clear glazing,
layered.

Pacifica Surfing

Graves: "Heroes of the Nursery"

THE BEACH

Louder than gulls the little children scream 
Whom fathers haul into the jovial foam; 
But others fearlessly rush in, breast high, 
Laughing the salty water from their mouthes-- 
Heroes of the nursery. 

The horny boatman, who has seen whales 
And flying fishes, who has sailed as far 
As Demerara and the Ivory Coast, 
Will warn them, when they crowd to hear his tales, 
That every ocean smells of tar. 

--Robert Graves

Winter Solstice Beach Lit

Waterside reading/listening for the turning of the year.

Reprise: The Drowned Man

Mask: The Drowned Man --
Sculpture mix; copper carbonate oxide and matte white glazing; Mendocino shingle beach.

Nov. 22, 2009.

Beach Time!

Sandy, salty, sunburnt, and sore-muscled: all the signs of a good day at the beach.

Reprise: Globefish Heading For Moody's in Mendocino

 July 24, 2012.  A fine day for kayaking too, as I recall.