Land-Shark: Two Views

Shark: sculpture mix; floating blue and transparent brown glazing, layered.

Pygmy Pachyderm

Elephant (Tiny Tantor): recycled studio mixed clay; unglazed.

I make and use such pieces to keep track of my projects in the studio.  Once you cover the bowls or sculptures with plastic, one bat looks much like another.  My duck-heads, birds, and elephants stand out  in such company, and they lead me to my own work . . . as well as warn off others that this bat-ful of clay is not theirs.  (That's the theory, anyway.)

One more for the menagerie.

Berkeley Mascot: Two Shots

For all my UCB compadres.

Or--forgive me--nuts about Berkeley!

"Whirl Is King"

(Or, "Kinesthetic Learner.")

Aristophanes comes to mind each time I sit down at the wheel. Putting the bowl in the creek and watching the water surround it --working against, working with, working around it-- seemed appropriate too as an extension of the Greek comic poet's claim and of the power of the spiral, the power of flow.

And, I like when a bowl comes out okay.

If I practiced more, such success would be a less remarkable thing, but for now when a decent piece of pottery comes out of the kiln, I'm taking photos.

(The last shot: a cordial nod to the fellow veterans of this particular and ursine alma mater.)