Tuesday, June 19, 2007

the hesitant warrior



Truly, doing the ceramic pieces will never cease to amaze me around the access that it gives to my around my emotional well being. I truly did not understand the depth of the sense of not knowing which way to move or how. This piece is truly a crying out for some guidance. The hesitant warrior.

Friday, June 1, 2007

it feels alive, very much so


Created a new piece today. Wish that I could take photos as I go along. So many different sculptures were in this piece in the the last couple of hours. Because I don’t use an armature for the clay, since I want to fire them, the wet clay cannot hold itself up in different points in the piece. It fell many times during the process. It started with one face and ended with one very different. The emotions went from searching to jubilant to sorrowful to so many places. Where it is now, well, I need to stand away from it to know. I like this piece, a lot. What I like most is the roughness of the clay, the under working of it. Not too much detail. The motion works as well as the emotion. I sit here writing, jumping up every few minutes to be sure that it has not fallen again. I have put her out in the wind to dry faster. It feels alive, very much so.