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And profoundly, the most common ceramic form on earth is the shard. An ironic metaphor for everything -- Creation Myth and Creative Process -- clay both fascinates and daunts. If it were too easily explicable, we'd be on to something more mysterious, right? There are others out there with my name -- and maha blessings to them!-- but I'm the Liz Crain who's a ceramic artist, sharing my individual version of ceramic art's saga with you. To reveal this ever-unfolding tale, I use images and writing of not only my work and whatever/ whoever else in the world affects it, but hold conversations with my readers as well. Together we'll explore as much as we can, stretching from formlessness to the ultimate shardy end. |
OK yes, that title is a tad dramatic. But it’s not a needy and exaggerated untruth: I’m actively sorting and defining what I know and enjoy about the entirety of ceramic arts in order to hone in on the heart and soul of this Beginning Handbuilding class, taught by me, starting at the [...]
Step right up and lookee here: I said YES when the enthusiastic folks at the Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center asked me if I would be so kind - and organized! - as to offer a structured series of Beginning Handbuilding classes. That was a few [...] Fallen Sphinx Totem It happens several times daily: the dog pushes open the back door to get in and I am too pre-occupied to get up and shut it. Besides, we are having weeks upon weeks of the best Summer-in-the-Winter ever here on the Monterey Bay and there is no need to batten [...] This post is a living example of itself (aside: would that make it a Strange Loop?) and I couch it purposely in the belly of the New Year, a very hard time to ignore the call of renewal and beginning again. I also couch it in the time of a retrograde Mercury, an [...] Here’s another work from my Tiffany Schmierer Skyline College 2009 Summer Session: Phrygian (the cap’s style) Phreedom (because it is based on the face of Statue of Freedom on top of the US Capitol Building.) Anyhoo….I have a thing for these sorts of classical faces, both the originals from Ancient Greece and Rome [...] In the world of filmmaking, when the camera changes focus during a single shot, (say from Mrs. Robinson’s half-stockinged leg to Benjamin in the background, conflicted and staring) it directs the viewer’s attention in a powerful narrative manner. I want to borrow this focus pull concept and play with it a little in the [...] It’s been fun thinking up how to show you all thirteen weekly small face jugs from the second quarter of my 2009 year-long series based on the Local Talk column in the Local Rag Called The Good Times. It’s basically a face-a-week proposition I have been working, working, working. But ever since hitting the [...] Living in a major surfing community as I do, the sights and sounds of its culture are wallpaper to my day. I have to admit to not having much to do with it directly, (Get in THAT cold water? And do WHAT? Eeeeep!) but just by being around here for 20 years, I have [...] Photo by Dan Coryo, Santa Cruz Sentinel Well, I need to tell you about the photo in my previous (first) blogpost. And about the one at the top of this post. Nothing like a good narrative! I made the cups in the photo in response to a request for local (Santa Cruz County, CA) [...] Hello! Welcome to my Blog! In the next few posts I will explain this photo (taken by Steven Barisof) and why “Soul Ceramics.” Come back soon. Liz [...] |
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