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Oceans
I have a feeling that my boat
has struck, down there in the depths,
against a great thing.
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Clays are extraordinary, layered, crystal structures which have, built into them, what amounts almost to an innate tendency to evolve…Clay has plans.
-Lyall Watson, from An Introduction to »»
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Oh Sweet Irrational Worship
Wind and a bobwhite
And the afternoon sun.
By ceasing to question the sun
I have become light,
Bird and wind.
My leaves sing.
I am earth, earth
All these lighted »»
Filed under: Freedom, Mysticism, Poetry, Spiritual Path, Thomas Merton, artist as vessel, ceramics, creativity | artist as vessel, ceramics, creativity, Freedom, Mysticism, Poetry, Thomas Merton, Vanessa Hidary|3 Comments
I finally got this one fired:
Next post from the tropics!
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I got a lot done in ceramics today. I glazed the second in my series of woman cracked open like eggs and finished the sculpting on the »»
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Joyful for no reason,
I want to see beyond this existence.
You open your lips, laughing.
I think of a design for that opening.
-Rumi (trans Coleman Barks & John Moyne)
I »»
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Today
my life is mirrored in
a morning Glory.
-Arakida Moritake (1473-1549, member of the Shinto priesthood)
Making art is such an adventure. Yesterday at the etching studio I thought my »»
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Halloween wore me out completely. Because of it, I’ve missed my etching studio time & my ceramics class. So what does an artist do when we »»
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Today I finished the sculpting of my first cracked woman. This picture doesn’t really capture the piece well- especially the cracks. And, of course, glazing & »»
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I’m working on a new series of sculptures: here’s a photo in process:
I’m planning to do a series of women in different poses and then crack them »»
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