Beach Salad

Beach salad.

(See Sappho on "beach rubble" via Mary Barnard.)

Hollow-eyed,

Tight-lipped:

This fish . . . .

Garnish for gulls.

Someone else's tower.

Rock on.

Fisherman setting forth.

My clayfellow Aegir . . . .

Flow.

 Ducks-in-a-row.

Reprise: Aegir, Sea-God

Brass Hooks, Sidelong Looks

Aegir: sculpture mix; blue, green,and white glazes;
copper wire; fishhooks.
20-minute exercise with model.
(I overglazed, actually, but later I realized that I like the gloppy, soggy, flowing look with this piece.)

Postscript:

Reprise/New shots of an old piece.  I like the angles.

Salvage Work: Rough Mermaid

I made this rough model for a larger piece, and now I'm wishing I'd spent more time on her face and on properly glazing her tail.  Still, each model helps me with the next.

Sculpture mix; green and blue glazing; copper wire; copper fishhooks; charcoal.

Aegir: Copper and Clay

Centering

Reprise: Aegir, Sea-God

Aegir: sculpture mix; blue, green,and white glazes; copper wire; fishhooks. 20-minute exercise with model.  

I've posted shots of this piece first here and collectively here.

Salvage Work

 Fisherman's Blues II: sculpture mix: blue slip & clear glaze; twine; twig; copper fishhooks.

The Thinker, Fisherman-Style

OR, THE FISHER-KING?

I needed a book-end for the semester's worth of books I was setting up for a shot.  The rum just went with the charcoal I had just started about a dozen feet away and outdoors.  Grilled salmon on the menu.

I'm still thinking of a proper title and text for this shot.  That's how I work sometimes.

"Blue Drop" started as a reflection on anger--anger that's stultifying--and with those photos of the small blue mask underwater stacked in my mind.  I moved the photos from memory, in the organic and technical senses, onto the page, started a mini-story in between, and there it is.  I'm still working on that entry too.  (I must have tinkered with the wording--especially adding, cutting, and re-adding, and then revising the last two paragraphs--a dozen times in small ways, but that's all part of the fun.  Draft in motion.)


If you are intrigued by what I've said about "Blue Drop," please go here.

Archilochos: Grains of Salt

Three Pieces from Archilochos, the ancient Greek poet, translated by Guy Davenport:

With ships so trim and narrow,

Ropes fast and sails full,

I ask of the gods that

Our comrades have a wind too,

That they meet neither tall wave

Nor reef.

                 All fortune be with them.

Let us hide the sea-king's gifts,

The wrecked dead Poseidon brings.

Their lives

Held in the arms

Of the waves.

--Archilochos

from Guy Davenport's 7 Greeks,

A New Directions Book: New York, 1995.

(I've posted shots of this sculpture in the past here.)