Lady

 

Lady and Light

Salt Glance

Silverstone clay;
Reitz's Green glazing.

Captain, Shakespearean

Captain, helping: "Read your Shakespeare."

Note: I was in the laundry room to settle the unsettled washer again.  While I was sitting upon the washing machine, I had thought to do a little homework or a little pleasure reading.  Captain helped me to settle upon the classic.

Green Man, Weary

Clay: soldate;

glazes: oribe and sea foam.

I was lucky with the blending, I think.

Recovery Cat

Motley, laid up with dehydration and injured legs.
She'll be 20 on April 1st.

Crab: Expressive

My Girl Motley

Nineteen-and-a-half . . . .

Hey Nineteen

Happy Nineteenth Birthday to Motley-girl.

(Kudos to Steely Dan for the title and a good song.)

Riddles at Random

. . . in the rain.

"Njal's Saga": "Thief's Eyes"

          On one occasion, Hoskuld was holding a feast for his friends; Hrut was there, sitting next to him.  Hoskuld had a daughter named Hallgerd, who was playing on the floor with some other girls; she was a tall, beautiful child with long silken hair that hung down to her waist.
          Hoskuld called to her, 'Come over her to me.'  She went to him at once.  Her father tilted her chin and kissed her, and she walked away again.
          Then Hoskuld asked Hrut:
          'What do you think of her?  Do you not think she is beautiful?'
          Hrut made no reply.  Hoskuld repeated the question.  Then Hrut said, 'The child is beautiful enough, and many will suffer for her beauty; but I cannot imagine how thief's eyes have come into our kin.'

--the Icelandic classic Njal's Saga -- 
          from the first page of Chapter 1 --

Translated by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson,
Penguin Books, 1960; 1972 reprint.

The Buckeye and the Beast

Eye, Aye: A Medley

Portrait of the Artist as an Old Dogfish

Felt good though.

Self-Portrait #52:
Kealakekua Bay, Big Island, Hawaii.
8/4/13.

Elemental Visions: The Druid Meets The Sea

The Cephlapod's Gaze II

The Cephlapod's Gaze

Into the shallows . . . .

Octopus (small): sculpture mix; denim and transparent brown glazing, with additional splashes of other colors.

My Girl

Motley: 18 years and running.

The Ocean In His Eyes

Misterioso Duck: 
sculpture mix; trans-brown and denim glazing.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; 
There is a rapture on the lonely shore; 
There is society, where none intrudes, 
By the deep sea, and music in its roar: 
I love not man the less, but Nature more, 
From these our interviews, in which I steal 
From all I may be, or have been before, 
To mingle with the Universe, and feel 
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
--Lord Byron,

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage:
Canto IV, #178

Bluefish: Two Views

Clayfish, Blue: stoneware; blue glazing.