Showing posts with label Transformation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transformation. Show all posts
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Fresh From the Kiln: Mermaid and Wave

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Mermaid, Swimming and Wave: silverstone clay; cobalt carbonate oxide.
Sunday, December 31, 2017

Chesterton: "Very Big Ideas in Very Small Spaces"

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On art and limitation and "very big ideas in very small spaces": "Meanwhile the philosophy of toy theatres is worth any on...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Waiting for Gadot

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Soldate clay; gray/green glaze: 8/10/15 If you've read my blog, you know I have a soft spot for frogs. (I also appreciate a cert...
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...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Goofing with Clay: Mythomarine

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Wet clay. Transformation almost complete --from man to fish -- Merman: body-armored against the cold sea. Bookend: A nod ...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Roundness

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Nicolson's "Sea Room" -- Gaelic and Norse

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Adam Nicolson's Sea Room is a memoir concerning the Shiant Islands in the Hebrides.  Nicolson inherited the islands from hi...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

"Kindness Flows": More From Archilochos

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In time of shame, Can you spare me the evil? Kindness flows both ways. Woman, woman, Why do you keep me here, Why this road, of all,...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Introducing Fern Capel

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I'll quote a lengthy paragraph from the first chapter of Jan Siegel's Prospero's Children.   I am tempted to quote something abo...