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Apr
14
it’s monday, so it must be pottery. brought home my very first completed clay creation. sure, there are novice flaws, distinguishing characteristics that i prefer to see through the lens of wabi-sabi, the japanese celebration of imperfection. the notion that an object with flaws is a work of art because the imperfections make it truly one of a kind.
i use that lens with people, too.
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Jeanne, can you send me e-mail?
steph, sent you an email a while ago. if the email magic goes wonky and you don’t get it, let me know and i’ll try, try again.
beautiful. looks as if it was in pieces and then mended back together. that is a good thing.
just it just *appear* to have different glazes? I loved seeing this last night and of course I was wondering if it had your special stamp on the bottom.
i like that way of seeing it, jude. mending. piecing. it’s one of the things i love about cloth work.
hey acey, yep: 3 different glazes with the occasional swoosh done to make beginner boo-boos look deliberate. no blue morning glory stamp on it, though. have this piece and 4 more that will be sans potter’s mark. hope to have the stamp ready to use by clay number six, though.
wow….very first piece, that is beautiful…..I love all the different glazes and textures. I seem to remember from my time spent in ceramic classes, imperfection happens a lot, at least for me. Yours are beautiful. It’s funny though sometimes as the artist, we are the only ones that see the flaws in our own pieces. Opening that toasty kiln is always exciting.
yeah, laney, i sure do recognize myself in your comment about seeing flaws in our own pieces. am trying to use the ole’ wabi-sabi lens more often when i look in the mirror.