Matt Duckworth Underwater

Art, Book reviews, Ceramics, Photographs, Postcards, Quick Fiction, Quotations, and (Usually Aquatic) Reflections. (P.S. This blog looks better in the web version.)

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Roman Definition of a Fool

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" He neither reads nor swims." I just found that in an old notebook from 1995. I'm wondering where I found that characterizati...

Touchstone: Byron and the Hellespont

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"A Bolognese physician is to be presented tomorrow at his own petition having heard that I am the celebrated aquatic genius who swam ac...

Friday, February 26, 2010

Mythical Midterm Examination

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Read the eight quotations below. As Task #1, for each quotation, commit yourself. Is the statement true or false? Explain: demonstrate; de...

Monday, February 15, 2010

Too Far from the Water

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I should be out in the water more. Been dry-docked lately. Here's how close I managed to get this weekend. Not close enough by far. (Th...

Friday, February 12, 2010

Postcard: The Merman's Knuckles

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I've been making mermen almost as long as I've been making mermaids. Here is the first one, from years back, made from two pieces of...

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The Merman's Head

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Sculpture mix; oxide (cobalt or copper carbonate?) underneath white glaze.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Channel-Surging

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I like swimming through surge-channels, feeling and resisting the force of the water, wondering how it must be for an otter or fish to live ...

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Matt Duckworth: San Francisco; East Bay, CA, United States; Heed the reefs not yet charted Seek that green isle beyond design

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