Kraken House

Old Clay: Moving Forward

Play-Date: Fish and Octo

Old clay pieces out in the world.
My version of building sand-castles, I guess.

Clay Play: Blue and Brown

Missing clay-time.
Samples from 2013: Strawberry Creek play.

Kelp and Wire: Old Art

Red Duck at Sunset

Kraken

Old art:
Octopus --
sculpture mix;
sea foam, dark blue, shiny black, and other glazes.

An Octopus

Note the creature's changes in color and contour.

Logbook: Helping

June 6:  Today a woman about my own age or a little younger approached me in the grocery store, asked me to help her with a high shelf an aisle or so away, and then directed me to which items she wanted. She was rather short, as she pointed out, I am tall, and the shelf was high.

I am often approached for help in many situations, but I was wearing very ragged, dirty jeans and a rather ragged, dirty t-shirt, carrying a six-pack of Negra Modelo and a box of Instant Oatmeal, and hadn't shaved in a couple of days, so she probably didn't mistake me for an employee, but she wanted help and asked. Power to her.

I was happy to help.

(I don't think she was hitting on me, by the way.)

P. S.
I should add that when she first approached me I was reaching for a giant stuffed octopus above the freezers, so there was at least one clue I might be harmless.

A Twist In Time

Wire art: two pieces, four shots.   I made these one weekend in 1996 at a point in my life between grad school and the rest of it when I didn't think I'd be teaching again.  An octopus and a merman, among others, came out of that angst.  Maybe my first move toward sculpture besides carving pumpkins, decorating Easter eggs, whittling sticks, and playing with random play-doh since childhood.

Clay came later.

Reprise: Shy Octopus

Remembering some summer fun.

Flow (With Tentacles)

More Than A Handful: 
sculpture mix; stormy blue, celadon, and transparent brown glazes, layered.

Profile Pics

The Shy Octopus, Again.

Perhaps, not so shy after all.

(Sculpture mix and a lot of glazes.)

Octopus Sighting: Sculptural Fun

Ichabod the Cephlapod: 

sculpture mix; green, denim, shino, yellow, trans-brown, and other glazes, layered.

Out of the kiln, into the creek.

Shy Octopus: Hello There!

Shy Octopus: sculpture mix; deep blue, denim, green, transparent brown, shino, and white glazing, layered.

The Cephlapod's Gaze II