Sunday, September 29, 2013

Ponies at the Ford

Marc Chagall: sculpture mix; denim glazing, layered.

Rockstar: sculpture mix; celadon glazing.


Saturday, September 28, 2013

Fishing With Clay

Fish-Head: sculpture mix; green and blue glazes, layered.
2009 vintage.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Looking Up (MDU)



Two shots of a favorite view from my 52nd birthday back in June.
Mendocino waters.

I'm yearning for the kelp, you know, and the rockfish's perspective.

Shadow of a Man


"Whirl is king."  --Aristophanes

Reprise: The Drowned Man










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

Nov. 22, 2009.

Autumnal Spirit: Bovine

Mask: Bovine For The Labyrinth --
Sculpture mix; celadon, denim, and transparent brown glazing, layered; copper wire.



 Detail:


Sunday, September 22, 2013

The Spirit of Autumn


Hernest: sculpture mix; brown glazes, layered.

(You can learn more about this luck-piece here.)

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Crossley-Holland: "The Language of Yes"


THE LANGUAGE OF YES

The world's wreckers are at their games
and everywhere it is late.

Words words words a fury of words
hype and shred and prate,
sanitise, speculate;
they please themselves.

How can I be content
with hollow professions
or the arm's length of the skeptic?
Even with the sensory,
the pig heart's slop-and-mess?

I still want.

Let me make and remake the word
which reveals itself,
unexpected, always various,

and be so curious
(affirmation's mainspring)
I sing the language of yes.

--Kevin Crossley-Holland

Autumnal: Mask

The Sleeper:
sculpture mix; nutmeg and shino glazing, layered; leather cord.
Mask, 2005; photograph, 2012.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Remembering Rudi: A Gallery






















Rest in peace, dear me-orange-boy-o:
You fought the good fight against cancer for many years.

April 1, 1995 - September 16, 2008.

Pictures of pictures.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Friday, September 13, 2013

The Green Knight?



Bertilak: sculpture mix; green house paint.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Yeats: The Conjurations of Luck


THE CAP AND BELLS

The jester walked in the garden:
The garden had fallen still;
He bade his soul rise upward
And stand on her window-sill.



Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Monday, September 9, 2013