2006
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September 8, 2006
'Dream Tracings" continues with Avoidance. This piece is a little different from the main set. This comes from a session with two models who were instructed to "interact". Usually this results in images of balance and dance. With this pair, what came out was a series of images of avoidance and repulsion, reaching out and rejecting. This tile has one of those images: Avoidance. Here is an image of the porcelain carving unfired, along with the drawing:
rejecting and gender
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September 1, 2006
More Good News: I will be holding my Open Studio Party October 21 and 22, 2006 at my new home in the Sunset. The Address is 1478 20th Avenue, San Francisco. Cross Street Kirkham. Please come!
New Work:
Starting a set of nine 11" by 16" porcelain "tiles". These are titled "Dream Tracings". The drawings were all done in one session where I drew imagined images while having my eyes closed. The first of these is "In the Foam", a bird washing up in the sea foam.
I have to say I was humbled by this first one in porcelain. I have been making lots of tiles of various sizes out of groggy or sandy stoneware clay, and developed some skills and techniques that made this pretty easy. So, when I started rolling out a large slab of porcelain and began to experience this magical but demanding clay, I realized that I had a whole new set of things to learn for this series.
Here is a photo of wet, greenware "In the Foam":
Also, I am finishing Writhing and Rising sculpture. Writhing has been attached to the base and finished, Rising will be added soon. Here are the photos from yesterday:
lines of dreaming.
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August 19, 2006
Good News: The Clay Studio found a New Home on Bluxome Street, San Francisco, starting November 2006. More soon.
finding a way
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August 10, 2006
New projects underway: Candlesticks and large tiles with more narrative themes. I am working in these new directions under a little bit of strain, as The Clay Studio will be closing at its current Harrison Street location on October 30. I very much hope that John Delois will find a new location to open up this magical place again in the near future.
finding a way
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Cinema Japan, one of five portraits inspired by Japanese movies.
transformation
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Candlesticks.
lighting our journey
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Dancers legs. Tile.
finding our grace
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July 2006
What I'm working on:
There are three projects on the table at my sculpture studio: "Listening to the Future", "88 Tiles" and "Writhing and Rising".
continuity
between human and inanimate
between inner and outer
form and sensation
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Writhing and Rising
Completely unplanned expression. Doodles while waiting for one of the bisque firings to cool. I had been making tiles obsessively and my hands felt very glad to be forming the wet clay into human feelings. Pain and Exaltation, rising out of my unconscious.
These two figures will be put together into one sculpture.
what pain teaches us
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I thought of the deeply personal aspects of our paths. And of the Mother Of Us All. All potentials are hidden inside her. And She hears what's coming and all potenitals flow through Her.
Listening to the Future
I was speaking to a friend who just found out she was pregnant. She was talking a lot about herself ten years from now, twenty years from now, having lived with a totally new person she had yet to meet. Having a relationship with that person for the rest of her life. Who will she be when her son is eighteen? Who would she have been if she had not become a mother?
The images below are the original sketch and her current unfired form.
mother
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88 tiles
These are basically done. At first I thought I would be doing some materials tests, several "white" stoneware clays, fired in an electric kiln, as I had no experience with the electric kiln and wanted to find new light-colored stoneware clays to work with.
But art and feelings and ideas crept in over the few months of making the tiles. Three or four sets of drawings, most of them trance drawings, made their way onto the tiles; and I learned and developed techniques for getting the line, the textures, the colors, I wanted.
The examples below are bisqued and colored, but not yet fired.
trance tracing
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