When my Art Salon met at my studio recently, I showed them all thirteen of the 2009 First Quarter’s Local Talkers, the small face jug series I am making based on photos from a weekly newspaper column. (Read my previous two posts for the complete backstory!) This mother-daughter double jug from Week 9 was [...]
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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. |
Well, here is something new: a stone totem, a trompe l’oeil tower, a rock axis mundi, a clay cairn. It’s SO different than a face jug! Just handling the bigger sizes and trying to get them to look organic, natural and offhanded is challenge enough, but to have them each be all that and [...] |
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