Showing posts with label Body. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Body. Show all posts
Sunday, July 8, 2018

Notes: My Back Hurts

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I Back spasms are no fun.  I don't even know exactly how I strained my back this time.  I didn't carry scuba tanks too far; I didn...
Friday, July 6, 2018

Body Language

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Captain: sending me signals. Those ears back, and that tail like a metronome.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Louise Gluck's "Dawn"

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DAWN 1 Child waking up in a dark room screaming I want my duck back, I want my duck back in a language nobody understands in the lea...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

William Finnegan: Learning Curves

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Here's a paragraph from Finnegan's excellent memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life: The ocean itself was another story.  I waded i...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Whiskey Friday

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Or, The Devil Is In The Details Body English : sculpture mix; transparent brown and shino glazing. 20-minute exercise.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Body English: Musings on the Beautiful and Sublime

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Let's quote Edmund Burke on "Gradual Variation": BUT as perfectly beautiful bodies are not composed of angular parts, so th...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Body English in Green

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Clay: soldate; glaze: oribe.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Body Language

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Clay play: body parts.
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Clay Dreams: Torso

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Body English: sculpture mix; transparent brown and shino glazing. 20-minute exercise.
Monday, October 7, 2013

Kennelly: "A Singing Wound"

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WHAT? 'What is my body?' I asked the man made of rain. 'A temple,' he said, 'and the shadow thrown by the temple, dr...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Body By The Numbers

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Clay: Figuring

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Anatomy class.
Saturday, May 25, 2013

More Frog Than Fish, More Log Than Frog

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I am just back from the pool, where I was more frog than fish, and more log than frog, I think.  Still, another start toward fitness and jo...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Wisdom Sleeps

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  Wisdom:  sculpture mix, unglazed; copper wire.
Saturday, November 24, 2012

John Buchan: "A Barndoor Fowl"?

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Here are two paragraphs from the very end of the first chapter --"Lost Gods"-- of John Buchan's The Island of Sheep , publishe...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Moya Cannon: "Emptinesses Which Hold"

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NAUSTS There are emptinesses which hold the leveret's form in spring grass; the tern's hasty nest in the shore pebble...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Montaigne's "Grotesques and Monstrous Bodies"

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The opening sentences from Montaigne's essay "On Friendship" strike a chord: As I was observing the way in which a painter i...
Sunday, September 2, 2012

"The Sea In The Head": Two More From Kennelly's "Islandman"

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When will we permit the sea in the head To flow as it will? The moon has laws but no theories. It sends out a cold, golden call ...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

Anatomy Class: Full Figures

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Here are full-figured shots of the palm-sized clay pieces I featured via partial shots in " Anatomy Class: Details ".  There w...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Anticipation

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