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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Go Fish
Summer/Fall 2009: Sculpture mix. On one fish, I put heavy celadon on top of a light coat of stormy blue; on the other, I put the stormy blue on top of a medium coat of shino (or not-shino, as the studio tag reads); there may be some slight transparent brown glazing as a further undercoat too. Go figure; go fish.
My favorite word--garsecg--from the Old English Beowulf is a kenning or poetic riddle-word for the sea. It means "the spear-man," perhaps the echo of a figure like the Norse Aegir or some other surly northern Neptune. In other texts, garsecg seems to be an adjective meaning "sea-like," "stormy" or "tempestuous."