tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89994633321983473262024-03-18T10:16:51.621-04:00Alchemy of ClayArt and life connectBarbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.comBlogger2349125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-17728322590348681612024-03-18T03:00:00.006-04:002024-03-18T03:00:00.131-04:00New glaze, old pot<p> I somehow had two vases that had been bisque fired in 2020 when I stopped going to the clay studio in Black Mountain.</p><p>They sat in boxes in my apartment as the pandemic passed, and I again returned to the studio this February. And now it's the middle of March, so I brought them in and glazed them last week. There are SO MANY studio glazes!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHeNexb_Lw7Kg7vj9drGHQ7hUppeuQkeedzds4PRMa1R4etSSFfNZwQ9b7BsBvgQ4ZjLxl8h24Z5v5qpFtO1h3OCjqEY9ZNWy6J01FdwQ3dl7Z4Zo74Lxt_DyrG-dnuWYHEYPfBsJkEGom79Y6OIEVEH3re80IeE1AaXPeoPXYPwHYVFlvhNVZ9GSmd90/s4032/IMG_0385.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHeNexb_Lw7Kg7vj9drGHQ7hUppeuQkeedzds4PRMa1R4etSSFfNZwQ9b7BsBvgQ4ZjLxl8h24Z5v5qpFtO1h3OCjqEY9ZNWy6J01FdwQ3dl7Z4Zo74Lxt_DyrG-dnuWYHEYPfBsJkEGom79Y6OIEVEH3re80IeE1AaXPeoPXYPwHYVFlvhNVZ9GSmd90/w465-h620/IMG_0385.jpg" width="465" /></a></div><br /><p>I chose a white liner, and then two dips into glossy green, first the bottom part, then after that dried, the top. It means pouring the white glaze into the vase, swishing it quickly around and pouring the excess out. Then that glaze has to dry a while (maybe an hour) before the clay can absorb the next glaze.</p><p>Before I start any glazing, I paint liquid wax all over the bottom and a 1/4 inch up the edge so no glaze will be on the bottom of the pot.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAU8JAIJ49JjPqRxgMvjUtHhur33K-pz2ex9938L3eq9WkaxlWctv2viOrbWnecI71OhCD0sSrhaGyYO2qflk8K3pSoNhGBufuias5CsTWsOSeNH8LRaaOpyAsdQViFKySzDftl3t2t0DNkBxnrU9pXKkfMk0D73bXHEZmF7BUVTl26D0UrD37YmGn2n8/s2571/IMG_0457.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2571" data-original-width="1517" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAU8JAIJ49JjPqRxgMvjUtHhur33K-pz2ex9938L3eq9WkaxlWctv2viOrbWnecI71OhCD0sSrhaGyYO2qflk8K3pSoNhGBufuias5CsTWsOSeNH8LRaaOpyAsdQViFKySzDftl3t2t0DNkBxnrU9pXKkfMk0D73bXHEZmF7BUVTl26D0UrD37YmGn2n8/w378-h640/IMG_0457.jpg" width="378" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-PkTO28_-8_VqYQcsuKopTk8jYZaQQxAbpe8S9yFmexuiVxb5opL-TO3s5km5L5zH-XS7Aqp9oXjLOoiYw714DTps6Bl_c18-4GJMzwZuqGtcobe6-w8GJQ_otQL11QvMvS0fHEx769T2wbTwDazi2Mb1ShliaNM1MJ7qelU8p1sMGXL5fWe1tbcuFrw/s2264/IMG_0458.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2264" data-original-width="1416" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-PkTO28_-8_VqYQcsuKopTk8jYZaQQxAbpe8S9yFmexuiVxb5opL-TO3s5km5L5zH-XS7Aqp9oXjLOoiYw714DTps6Bl_c18-4GJMzwZuqGtcobe6-w8GJQ_otQL11QvMvS0fHEx769T2wbTwDazi2Mb1ShliaNM1MJ7qelU8p1sMGXL5fWe1tbcuFrw/w400-h640/IMG_0458.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">As you can see, there's a space between both the greens. But isn't bare clay. I dipped the top again into the white glaze, but it was very runny, and acted just like a clear glaze. Sometimes it gives mottled effects on the green, but not this time. If I make more vases, I'll try again!</span></div><p>Pardon my screen saver background...I have so much stuff around my house, there's no clear wall to photograph pottery against.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today's quote:</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. -Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (1912-1987)</span></span></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-27648910627185556052024-03-16T03:30:00.000-04:002024-03-16T03:30:00.133-04:00More dragon work<p> A meeting of dragons was held at the philodendron place on the table. Lighting was better, but still tinted a bit green. However, dragons don't mind that at all.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ipIf0vEXwTvAvYzPxb1rlen2kWe4DfR5ROdng5FOB2jvqL-zbtbSQcC_x5MTiGf1DXwDzjQUtoTm88_SZ4liZi192w-yW8WY30vdllhgBcbMDxTTN3Im9OkqWTj_29wYfJis7X9uoY4dtdViq6L79hPDhGft6bSuQW0ZFfNUmJnNUC7KYoCsxrm_clY/s2016/IMG_0447.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ipIf0vEXwTvAvYzPxb1rlen2kWe4DfR5ROdng5FOB2jvqL-zbtbSQcC_x5MTiGf1DXwDzjQUtoTm88_SZ4liZi192w-yW8WY30vdllhgBcbMDxTTN3Im9OkqWTj_29wYfJis7X9uoY4dtdViq6L79hPDhGft6bSuQW0ZFfNUmJnNUC7KYoCsxrm_clY/w480-h640/IMG_0447.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Needed some better shots of Little Miss Dragon Number One. She has a nest full of dragon eggs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWbhsCA0NJfbwFrKQ96t7ikf72yqqyYIl5fhU7qL0xxlJCEGVf1_SNo1T0yt9CGvLcazJE0rCqhaDPzVIj8NX6g11gkXvYMpD9Zy51v7w4NlsbJ-Beu2xAxye6n5P8infj927VaD2OjPwSZH13yFbSE-N6HV8Ax8dJmouQ-Hda5SJssT5IPzgsiXW2-H8/s2016/IMG_0452.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWbhsCA0NJfbwFrKQ96t7ikf72yqqyYIl5fhU7qL0xxlJCEGVf1_SNo1T0yt9CGvLcazJE0rCqhaDPzVIj8NX6g11gkXvYMpD9Zy51v7w4NlsbJ-Beu2xAxye6n5P8infj927VaD2OjPwSZH13yFbSE-N6HV8Ax8dJmouQ-Hda5SJssT5IPzgsiXW2-H8/w480-h640/IMG_0452.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p><br /></p>And today she wants to introduce to you, her brother (or sister, we're not sure actually) Dragon Number Two.<p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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border-collapse: collapse; color: #5d5651; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 71.7756px; padding-right: 71.7756px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="color: #313335; display: inline-block; font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 4px 0px 12px;">Since there is nothing but just this moment, the time-being is all the time there is.</h1></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;" valign="top"><p style="color: #767676; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 32px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">DŌGEN</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-69998084360464963852024-03-15T03:00:00.006-04:002024-03-15T03:00:00.134-04:00Gruff, short film<p>A whole lot of paper cutting, bending, posing...</p><p>I saw an interview on CBS Sunday Morning with Julian Curry, who did all the cutting and filming! Incredible artistry. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_ASJgGCy3cKz6A25DyRz2nyPJBEoS15JgS2ETydFAzlNQZ1rB3ERc_CO-oM0JMbfLv5YfNXSCnP1EmOXP0AkK1uSe-nyVAZUuEg1x0rs2BTgP1Qm2VVmPJTLn8szGOG1Wd8gxoz8cdP4ugHWzj64ul7zInORlpQtAkv2xp93uv-smMGsiab7uBdXuhIa/s3024/IMG_0403.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2583" data-original-width="3024" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_ASJgGCy3cKz6A25DyRz2nyPJBEoS15JgS2ETydFAzlNQZ1rB3ERc_CO-oM0JMbfLv5YfNXSCnP1EmOXP0AkK1uSe-nyVAZUuEg1x0rs2BTgP1Qm2VVmPJTLn8szGOG1Wd8gxoz8cdP4ugHWzj64ul7zInORlpQtAkv2xp93uv-smMGsiab7uBdXuhIa/w530-h452/IMG_0403.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1A_fuLmVDlO2dm8dbjwxHP7DpOuJL8NDx-MbbNCUtAHJ_dFbrorqtHI1eSdrZL3rCYerUY42fX7Sfg_7Zh6RLMlAW0ySTN5SqRTeoh_2awp8FH1BOIAQpcxtIXZO1IOMmMfnp2LPlYn1rSbPHkoj00vrHL9uoOFySHWhNGeWJ4SEgjGZ5xOuoUgl5NAp/s4032/IMG_0404.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1A_fuLmVDlO2dm8dbjwxHP7DpOuJL8NDx-MbbNCUtAHJ_dFbrorqtHI1eSdrZL3rCYerUY42fX7Sfg_7Zh6RLMlAW0ySTN5SqRTeoh_2awp8FH1BOIAQpcxtIXZO1IOMmMfnp2LPlYn1rSbPHkoj00vrHL9uoOFySHWhNGeWJ4SEgjGZ5xOuoUgl5NAp/w592-h444/IMG_0404.jpg" width="592" /></a></div>His studio is in his garage...<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>He used the cutting techniques that are used by scrap-bookers...and then those by stop action animators. Just fantastic.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwjI51WRGu28FFxkyVqDu8fm_z6mVpsuLaHHYdpy9F5wyzfkLIJzdS19usO9uDfq1oP0bWfEUa-EOTFBZz4FDklFpqf2S_03JQWh4YpAp-oigooKGRYRRPwL2v5YIqSa-feqoh1bUwHuaxIYTwJO7WinI5JEelkA4HkdHmI59KPazlLpGengYOjXrKu1Ht/s4032/IMG_0405.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwjI51WRGu28FFxkyVqDu8fm_z6mVpsuLaHHYdpy9F5wyzfkLIJzdS19usO9uDfq1oP0bWfEUa-EOTFBZz4FDklFpqf2S_03JQWh4YpAp-oigooKGRYRRPwL2v5YIqSa-feqoh1bUwHuaxIYTwJO7WinI5JEelkA4HkdHmI59KPazlLpGengYOjXrKu1Ht/w640-h480/IMG_0405.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>And he showed us how his set was made from Amazon boxes.</p><p>Here's the short film.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="449" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5p4s4k3eB_I" width="526" youtube-src-id="5p4s4k3eB_I"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-85801316650780708812024-03-13T03:00:00.035-04:002024-03-13T03:00:00.178-04:00Number One Dragon 2024<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ZFtY6-0GaC_aR-jxCi2NnOhgutNl4f_nGQnjH7Om56To8orb4BDVvLkyxTvl0PhOTcc8qQT3aiDcsaiF5CDkAhm-I65wU9VnOgsvA0F8gdbw4EYZRd3EFZuykZNQ-ussJVQSTLds97bgOFFqaqbvaVykMnozY26yGnEyvd-qfPUYg1HT8PbLQWVnmOw/s4032/IMG_0190.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ZFtY6-0GaC_aR-jxCi2NnOhgutNl4f_nGQnjH7Om56To8orb4BDVvLkyxTvl0PhOTcc8qQT3aiDcsaiF5CDkAhm-I65wU9VnOgsvA0F8gdbw4EYZRd3EFZuykZNQ-ussJVQSTLds97bgOFFqaqbvaVykMnozY26yGnEyvd-qfPUYg1HT8PbLQWVnmOw/s320/IMG_0190.jpg" width="240" /></a></p><p>Number One Dragon of 2024 - finished and waiting to fire.</p><p>The test was for my fingers mainly, as to being able to hold tools, and make small details with minor shakes. I may test strength later on the wheel. But for now I've only had a couple of times when a cramp started and I was able to stop and shake it out effectively.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyntxIC8f8xP_7Ziwrp312LVDpT-HPx1KfOvM_h1ZitRFOKUIEg0Z1VMDqx1pZQdE7r44jUsNbqzN3FcHpe3ERGmdNthrMorE1B1aVqd6-SZuVFbkOcEiNQfja-AfDzMoPP99lg_7MRs7WP23n4v2cfokL0JuHWEMxahpgMdhpJ0EWDhliZ6BnmGP-D0Y/s1827/IMG_0341.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1827" data-original-width="1370" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyntxIC8f8xP_7Ziwrp312LVDpT-HPx1KfOvM_h1ZitRFOKUIEg0Z1VMDqx1pZQdE7r44jUsNbqzN3FcHpe3ERGmdNthrMorE1B1aVqd6-SZuVFbkOcEiNQfja-AfDzMoPP99lg_7MRs7WP23n4v2cfokL0JuHWEMxahpgMdhpJ0EWDhliZ6BnmGP-D0Y/w332-h442/IMG_0341.jpg" width="332" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Glazed Number One Dragon - Sorry iPhone enlarges his head when I try to get close!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJREONyISDEh4w3PJzwPTx0IM2bu_IcquBwz6cjk-MhwEFFg-R73xFNDfGK9Hc0MhCXphgDR70j8etYRCrkAntsFwbC40gxFr5NMQ0QoVedNIvPEHZxmRKaSQOeG4EbRPXy2tFrd3hKLKdZVXzoDVjPWaTD8DtAl_4xDpBj7pF2AhO9MRZbtxw0XSCVS4/s1463/IMG_0349.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1463" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJREONyISDEh4w3PJzwPTx0IM2bu_IcquBwz6cjk-MhwEFFg-R73xFNDfGK9Hc0MhCXphgDR70j8etYRCrkAntsFwbC40gxFr5NMQ0QoVedNIvPEHZxmRKaSQOeG4EbRPXy2tFrd3hKLKdZVXzoDVjPWaTD8DtAl_4xDpBj7pF2AhO9MRZbtxw0XSCVS4/w508-h324/IMG_0349.jpg" width="508" /></a></div>Number One Dragon, glazed with matt black and matt bronze green.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw0lYsaUuqMDw_oqm2ms-n3YrXduXM5K-yZLL8dY1biy5sjy9L5NdglcJTKyLSg3e5jLqNaG-aB4a33sBUx76mzQwRTPOzKbDNuLBM3kDMwVFbeNIJGGdyVURvvDxWedjCdHHVCrGTO00aS7_wvyaJyTg8L7Neznyduen0Hh2Y2wAZ0pUBiWcPsVoqqM0/s2016/IMG_0178.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="487" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw0lYsaUuqMDw_oqm2ms-n3YrXduXM5K-yZLL8dY1biy5sjy9L5NdglcJTKyLSg3e5jLqNaG-aB4a33sBUx76mzQwRTPOzKbDNuLBM3kDMwVFbeNIJGGdyVURvvDxWedjCdHHVCrGTO00aS7_wvyaJyTg8L7Neznyduen0Hh2Y2wAZ0pUBiWcPsVoqqM0/w365-h487/IMG_0178.jpg" width="365" /></a></div>Some pieces that go into making a dragon.<div><br /></div><div>Today's quote:</div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">-Eric Idle, comedian, actor, and author (b. 29 Mar 1943)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">-------------------</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Well, there goes all the PC things that have been removed from humor in our society!</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">As a blond, I remember howling at blond jokes!</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwDt8415QYXOfqS0JPKX1pvWR3C8bl6hEv3C8OINg1qmpE8Cp11VFXuNfDOBUIGhBVWfMGq3y0kbpJsQx6IeLk2hW_tf0pwc14pxZ1tfFq-9kPlYvAFqWc-zmVBR4fiQw-hHXJnXMwxVPkEOCAzlRTio2okZKlMDejB1pgpXqgug8p3AAnbrjerz7lKVU/s935/counter%20in%20Salzburg%20for%20those%20who%20wanted%20to%20go%20to%20Australia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="935" data-original-width="526" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwDt8415QYXOfqS0JPKX1pvWR3C8bl6hEv3C8OINg1qmpE8Cp11VFXuNfDOBUIGhBVWfMGq3y0kbpJsQx6IeLk2hW_tf0pwc14pxZ1tfFq-9kPlYvAFqWc-zmVBR4fiQw-hHXJnXMwxVPkEOCAzlRTio2okZKlMDejB1pgpXqgug8p3AAnbrjerz7lKVU/w360-h640/counter%20in%20Salzburg%20for%20those%20who%20wanted%20to%20go%20to%20Australia.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-4707882607214611822024-03-11T03:00:00.005-04:002024-03-11T03:00:00.239-04:00Monday Murals<p> At the clay studio building, I've shared several other murals before. But this one is hard to see by a passing car, especially when looking for a parking place. Only someone walking by might get a glimpse of it. I took a break to get some fresh air, and stood right under it, looking at the retention pond where a lot of clay/glaze sludge washes out, as well as rainwater. There over my shoulder I was surprised to see this.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi75R69uIFCApp1KQjZYm56CbDCPePu81jArSBWH4ZZUj3rsVUivSwwLt27MaH-OM8tS696Y2mi5jGIpbVoPuswNcgYetabRtp7H-VjFLocQx0QrMgJES4Z-9mSyP_pid2O06ijFfBuBQzhQOEULM5iRV1ahZJoyzmb8jM6PeL4pePjOIc89PexC6XnTYo/s2016/IMG_0358.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi75R69uIFCApp1KQjZYm56CbDCPePu81jArSBWH4ZZUj3rsVUivSwwLt27MaH-OM8tS696Y2mi5jGIpbVoPuswNcgYetabRtp7H-VjFLocQx0QrMgJES4Z-9mSyP_pid2O06ijFfBuBQzhQOEULM5iRV1ahZJoyzmb8jM6PeL4pePjOIc89PexC6XnTYo/w480-h640/IMG_0358.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHvdANw9KBjYw0jumtoCrZrG5aHzpCxjpYcySVg85-lpYr9aAc8gXx6r9-7wwjWHycRPAVToOZ-7N0EiA_iorqkFcaXF_E0OqfiE7NlQaDir7QBPQKKd7hVvB3qKCipeTv-dzmErfR9dpeePHQVb-lmWZP3y3fARTkazBTxLQuVvwAXk3yRpLc-yiGZfQ/s2016/IMG_0359.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWgS1PVLbMBnUzkQlmAG-nNXYL_qVTiIsjz79F8M7IozXCszL6RzhHSExGFkgcklm3Nw1tDYKKxEJtqtuNhF4Rp-AnPU9GtvSItC9SNYF6h-nwUaH5gHFzFLaw4FX97W48AnJ_DgDCYwfGm399zqeQI5xBw4HYpkeALFnjkBiJMoTDMimAXkUZjByRJM/w480-h640/IMG_0365.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>After I enjoyed looking up and down and examining each tile, I went inside and asked Charles who had made the tiles. He said lots of people, all ages. I could see many were made by children. I asked when it was made, and he said about a year ago.</p><p>I love how it's strung together by loops of wire, and each column hangs freely from the pipe above.</p><p>Sharing with <a href="https://sami-colourfulworld.blogspot.com/">Monday Murals!</a> Thanks Sami for hosting this meme!<br />Today's quote:</p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">One does not advance the swimming abilities of ducks by throwing the eggs in the water. </span></span></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">-Multatuli (pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), novelist (1820-1887)</span></span></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-71129891139716991872024-03-10T03:00:00.006-04:002024-03-10T12:18:23.473-04:00Susan Seddon Boulet<p> I have long admired her work. I even think I still have a poster which I hung over my desk for many years...there's a fantastical aspect of the paintings...interweaving of myth and magic and humans.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRJ7FsINfT4NID1lYqL9gAetEYyB_DpEQpl_5aWRvh2H38DPQ_YVxS3vMnv_b7yG1RkZPxT3wN_7wxhzS5zlcZTsP0ThHmIG0im11j3Vpc9tWKZ0pgGyReG3xOANk4EGipsib631nV24C_1nMoUaFUe783NnOKqM9UjRvm1UVlSfj7Gke8SxbXjMFbYWc/s810/Susan%20SeddonBoulet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="526" height="629" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRJ7FsINfT4NID1lYqL9gAetEYyB_DpEQpl_5aWRvh2H38DPQ_YVxS3vMnv_b7yG1RkZPxT3wN_7wxhzS5zlcZTsP0ThHmIG0im11j3Vpc9tWKZ0pgGyReG3xOANk4EGipsib631nV24C_1nMoUaFUe783NnOKqM9UjRvm1UVlSfj7Gke8SxbXjMFbYWc/w409-h629/Susan%20SeddonBoulet.jpg" width="409" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvi6qNnStMs0EfPX6xqqvUn2N8aKYGCIUB5TNlHEM6dSix46vU_NEsnsBAbyFh40AqSCZMMXN0UXBLHekGtUElrqAgBwk9__i3fA6UXKuBGQCRePa5OFixjUZCQX-J9h_ogO6jiskxoxxGRIpPoQSYisckOsJ4wQ287okc-12RZoHZ4mnOdVFSYzmOdPw/s1000/Susan%20Seddon%20Boulet%20Forest%20Spirit%20(1994).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="730" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvi6qNnStMs0EfPX6xqqvUn2N8aKYGCIUB5TNlHEM6dSix46vU_NEsnsBAbyFh40AqSCZMMXN0UXBLHekGtUElrqAgBwk9__i3fA6UXKuBGQCRePa5OFixjUZCQX-J9h_ogO6jiskxoxxGRIpPoQSYisckOsJ4wQ287okc-12RZoHZ4mnOdVFSYzmOdPw/w418-h572/Susan%20Seddon%20Boulet%20Forest%20Spirit%20(1994).jpg" width="418" /></a></div>Forest spirit, 1994<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgScHj-O_S64JM5kCFLV4xmWhpKOCCJsn9_sMDS2qzSqkbVp1c4y2cV391RbOTz0YvRw7Xrvz-2RTH_b86Q3SsWxz26p6NpAnz-LaCZvHyhhE2t4LMSts4d0Muvtj3E6qSF6jWlB085e504AJLAIQJH8OgvKJoTgG1JRQKzXeQ0KVsfYpV8ITs7ZS-x-0Y/s449/A%20dragon-boat%20Susan%20Seddon-Boulett.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="449" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgScHj-O_S64JM5kCFLV4xmWhpKOCCJsn9_sMDS2qzSqkbVp1c4y2cV391RbOTz0YvRw7Xrvz-2RTH_b86Q3SsWxz26p6NpAnz-LaCZvHyhhE2t4LMSts4d0Muvtj3E6qSF6jWlB085e504AJLAIQJH8OgvKJoTgG1JRQKzXeQ0KVsfYpV8ITs7ZS-x-0Y/w496-h496/A%20dragon-boat%20Susan%20Seddon-Boulett.jpg" width="496" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A dragon boat</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgBXTV3VvN9QoxzUBuoFsP8FX7ZbmpZUIgOwb4uWolVr-beJ4pSuu_g5lN5kNp0b_jQvTtGVW6PMCVQjstdTKG7SBYs_USAWlRknzkiRsP4qPrT9qToeelqwueq34HuWeDN0LH9CdZDiKOh91ydAYqItATmqhDwQqH315I5ULKGqM-Bv6_2Xam32u2qc/s960/%5BSpirit%5D%20Small%20Household%20Spirit%201989%20Susan%20Seddon%20Boulet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="781" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgBXTV3VvN9QoxzUBuoFsP8FX7ZbmpZUIgOwb4uWolVr-beJ4pSuu_g5lN5kNp0b_jQvTtGVW6PMCVQjstdTKG7SBYs_USAWlRknzkiRsP4qPrT9qToeelqwueq34HuWeDN0LH9CdZDiKOh91ydAYqItATmqhDwQqH315I5ULKGqM-Bv6_2Xam32u2qc/w471-h580/%5BSpirit%5D%20Small%20Household%20Spirit%201989%20Susan%20Seddon%20Boulet.jpg" width="471" /></a></div>Small household spirit, 1989</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZCG_8DVg_Lc3AeEZwBherlfju2Fo_YHcBVcUnNgxwEqtCy3f8cXRIon33ZZGgmk12jytVpxhPez0ZESu9dc0WkuRvU976FgllIIsybi0BXr_IwNK6BOB1WRTFJaQZG56opbz1mF1cGqqiQUcV_-4YaWPlIDujvm83dhCx0VehuO6VGiCMNFa3taks4Ks/s1000/IMG_2074.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="707" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZCG_8DVg_Lc3AeEZwBherlfju2Fo_YHcBVcUnNgxwEqtCy3f8cXRIon33ZZGgmk12jytVpxhPez0ZESu9dc0WkuRvU976FgllIIsybi0BXr_IwNK6BOB1WRTFJaQZG56opbz1mF1cGqqiQUcV_-4YaWPlIDujvm83dhCx0VehuO6VGiCMNFa3taks4Ks/w367-h520/IMG_2074.JPG" width="367" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Today's quote:</div><div> </div><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #5d5651; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 71.7756px; padding-right: 71.7756px; text-align: center;"><p style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 4px;">Peace is an invitation in daily life to breathe deep, right here, in the uncertainty.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;" valign="top"><p style="color: #767676; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 27px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">MORGAN HARPER NICHOLS</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-82359916318952584762024-03-09T03:00:00.000-05:002024-03-09T03:00:00.244-05:00Truth vs Lies<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The world famous painting- “The Truth coming out of the well” Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896.</span></p><p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBnhplb7yJVBHEhy0qq-Hy2AIyjm2xn3wbpT2Jbab2UIaznwyeDhwr76o_y9gILmipb2jKZepLs2A1UvoVw76aK1QaiJhDF5eq7e8_tKOGGZa03k0VwDTQftgztzy5RM1iF60jz6Jh-PSGFr5JdasnANpwEjaXBldlK4d2tRtv9Yw98e4BoHiEvs4bp0/s960/Truth%20coming%20out%20of%20the%20well.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="743" height="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBnhplb7yJVBHEhy0qq-Hy2AIyjm2xn3wbpT2Jbab2UIaznwyeDhwr76o_y9gILmipb2jKZepLs2A1UvoVw76aK1QaiJhDF5eq7e8_tKOGGZa03k0VwDTQftgztzy5RM1iF60jz6Jh-PSGFr5JdasnANpwEjaXBldlK4d2tRtv9Yw98e4BoHiEvs4bp0/w487-h628/Truth%20coming%20out%20of%20the%20well.jpg" width="487" /></a></div><p></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">According to a 19th century legend, the Truth and the Lie meet one day. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The Lie says to the Truth: “It’s a marvellous day today”! The Truth looks up to the <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>skies and sighs, for the day was really beautiful.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They spend a lot of time together, ultimately arriving beside a well. The Lie tells the Truth: “The water is very nice, let’s take a bath together!” The Truth, once again suspicious, tests the water and discovers that it indeed is very nice. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They undress and start bathing. Suddenly, the Lie comes out of the water, puts on the clothes of the Truth and runs away. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The furious Truth comes out of the well and runs everywhere to find the Lie and to get her clothes back. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The World, seeing the Truth naked, turns its gaze away, with contempt and rage. The poor Truth returns to the well and disappears forever, hiding therein, its shame. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Since then, the Lie travels around the world, dressed as the Truth, satisfying the needs of society, because, the World, in any case, harbours no wish at all to meet the naked Truth.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As published on Facebook.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-22438434224146638942024-03-07T03:00:00.010-05:002024-03-07T03:00:00.148-05:00A quandry<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSItP2befux28uhU2vmWSjjdnwTLufLVRoiJnMV_8sksbK21tE26dIG_gAnhyx9R98daOUclilVF-APuB9RWtQlQbzMx0SFntV0OyU23vcwtnkVwsZ59S1Ta7GcVM7_TUkvQitSTNpVuuVD0lVc6eO5pDz_EPW7xi8By59bQatcH5HoGDw9z0Rj4ARaGc/s4032/IMG_0336.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="553" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSItP2befux28uhU2vmWSjjdnwTLufLVRoiJnMV_8sksbK21tE26dIG_gAnhyx9R98daOUclilVF-APuB9RWtQlQbzMx0SFntV0OyU23vcwtnkVwsZ59S1Ta7GcVM7_TUkvQitSTNpVuuVD0lVc6eO5pDz_EPW7xi8By59bQatcH5HoGDw9z0Rj4ARaGc/w415-h553/IMG_0336.jpg" width="415" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Several times lately I've driven over to a fast food restaurant, and found this strange looking cup. The golden arches are upside down. And to the right of the logo appears some Korean looking characters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hey, here I am in North Carolina. I haven't seen a Korean that I would know to recognize since I've lived here 16 years. Why would Micky D's have it on their cups? If it is of course, Korean. I am ignorant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today's quote:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #5d5651; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 71.7756px; padding-right: 71.7756px; text-align: center;"><p style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 4px;">Grateful living is the stance we take when confronting adversity. It is the deep knowledge that what is before us may not be desired, but we can take control of ourselves despite the chaos around us.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;" valign="top"><p style="color: #767676; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 27px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">JOE PRIMO</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-25778722196032264602024-03-05T09:40:00.000-05:002024-03-05T09:40:40.388-05:00Art for the next generations<p><a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/the-lost-words-macfarlane-morris/?mc_cid=e8fa87d5d3&mc_eid=07332e3c3d"> <i>The Lost Words,</i> by Robert Macfarlane and illustrated by Jackie Morris</a>...here excerpted by Maria Popova in her <i>Marginalian</i>.</p><p>I've long been an admirer of Jackie Morris' art, since she once was a blogger herself. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOgfaU0MZJpaqMgZj6Eh08itIdsr1u5ZPDtjhFz2Nr6czxClzY2X3qy8j8jiHnRZ2687rTEkK8zxlzktLKho6F2RZctlUaQp4N8zSzJpeCExuoXDVatmzd4a79-JAu0yuL22wkz09ljE2rREwzj5EIeV1PzmTHBHLfJS2HA7p4hGafP0XT8q7Sb86Smf4/s838/Lost%20words.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="838" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOgfaU0MZJpaqMgZj6Eh08itIdsr1u5ZPDtjhFz2Nr6czxClzY2X3qy8j8jiHnRZ2687rTEkK8zxlzktLKho6F2RZctlUaQp4N8zSzJpeCExuoXDVatmzd4a79-JAu0yuL22wkz09ljE2rREwzj5EIeV1PzmTHBHLfJS2HA7p4hGafP0XT8q7Sb86Smf4/w447-h296/Lost%20words.jpg" width="447" /></a></div><br /><p>She not only does elegant watercolors, but is a mistress (master?) of gold leaf.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmTIJMFxzUq9IfUGWhEPOvmCuYn_RH5n-Qgj2ATaTLU9yMCtQJKaS0bTlQ3NUp5BUrV6z2DBnksjjxI8FNgwvieO3PGMXN7Db9aF-JcAKJHw9bpI_ewczEzLWWcv0TWhASA5ysBk8oTa5kg1BxeWLc2yWRBY4EdE_iRbzdEUyNU0n3at50JyEWKAfeGlM/s930/hare%20by%20Jackie%20Morris.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="680" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmTIJMFxzUq9IfUGWhEPOvmCuYn_RH5n-Qgj2ATaTLU9yMCtQJKaS0bTlQ3NUp5BUrV6z2DBnksjjxI8FNgwvieO3PGMXN7Db9aF-JcAKJHw9bpI_ewczEzLWWcv0TWhASA5ysBk8oTa5kg1BxeWLc2yWRBY4EdE_iRbzdEUyNU0n3at50JyEWKAfeGlM/w439-h600/hare%20by%20Jackie%20Morris.jpg" width="439" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I followed the process of Macfarlane's and Morris' publishing this book, so that words removed from the English Dictionary about natural critters and plants would not be lost to the education of the next generation.</p><p>It moved so many educators in England and Wales, that movements came up with funding to put this book in each school library in England (not sure but primary grades at least). It was certainly sold in most of the independent bookstores there.</p><p>This done, music was also devised to express the glory of these words, these creatures that would refuse to go unnoticed in the English language. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hg1xFYpXuWA" width="320" youtube-src-id="Hg1xFYpXuWA"></iframe></div>Lost Words Blessing Song<br /><p><br /></p><p>Then there were the Selkies, the wonderful seals. Jackie painted them with wonderful inks on great pieces of beautiful paper. She even did this in front of audiences who listened to the music composed for them. It was a wonderful joining together for those who supported poetry, visual arts, book printing, and composition of new music.</p><p>I've followed this path of Ms. Morris', which screeched to a halt with COVID. So that's when I purchased some of the art and books myself. And last week just finally realized I was ready to read "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" by Morris with her illustrations. It's a Norwegian myth story, brought back to the 21st century, or perhaps forward. I had looked at the illustrations when it arrived, but it's sat on my bookshelf for several months. It's now my alternate book for bedtime reading (I still haven't finished Robin Wall Kimmer's <i>Braiding Sweetgrass.</i>)</p><p>When I gave each of my loved ones a card with Jackie Morris' art on them, as part of their Christmas gifts...some of them fell very short. But the gift was made.</p><p>So the generations may be influenced by the arts.</p><p><br /></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-2070557428492373352024-03-03T03:00:00.006-05:002024-03-03T03:00:00.146-05:00Inside the BMCA clay studio<p> The open studio in 2013. It hasn't changed much since then! All students can work on their creations at this time, and I'm an Independent Student, so that's my only time in the clay studio. I have attended as such for 12 years until COVID, then I just returned in February of 2024.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-qolcoDXZkXPrudGNcDP-O9MelUb0nvhhNhxDY2JTg2ynZXJGLzWSF2QWlnsZyw0yVnO48MizAfe3X3M_AcwPup4zS-QfovGfq1itcTohPvKS_jqvl9O9_uvY_WQm6LzaJMmVAOCITUAXVOK-RYuPAo7CmMKY-XwT7WS0OP9tLIUDaMIr91sQz2rt9PU/s640/BMCA%20Open%20Studio.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="571" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-qolcoDXZkXPrudGNcDP-O9MelUb0nvhhNhxDY2JTg2ynZXJGLzWSF2QWlnsZyw0yVnO48MizAfe3X3M_AcwPup4zS-QfovGfq1itcTohPvKS_jqvl9O9_uvY_WQm6LzaJMmVAOCITUAXVOK-RYuPAo7CmMKY-XwT7WS0OP9tLIUDaMIr91sQz2rt9PU/w428-h571/BMCA%20Open%20Studio.JPG" width="428" /></a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWUFJzXN6lS_G5VyXtQ0-76_JqYu6g0Js_leEvk_NwbHeeI5W79UjcQV87CmnZ917Yq395qRtnUNEq7Abb4chsI_xaWBO8FjXjchDbzO-ab8JpWfXUcWs9PsSN5cCWwZ49iSu-jvh1PiqN0yuv3U0ChbP6DZpeQM6PpJBwzId6NH9Pik30OTUCMaXpjFg/s480/Clay%20Studio%20glaze%20area.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="480" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWUFJzXN6lS_G5VyXtQ0-76_JqYu6g0Js_leEvk_NwbHeeI5W79UjcQV87CmnZ917Yq395qRtnUNEq7Abb4chsI_xaWBO8FjXjchDbzO-ab8JpWfXUcWs9PsSN5cCWwZ49iSu-jvh1PiqN0yuv3U0ChbP6DZpeQM6PpJBwzId6NH9Pik30OTUCMaXpjFg/w473-h315/Clay%20Studio%20glaze%20area.jpg" width="473" /></a></div><div>Glazing area</div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibJ6fzxs7wqlwpzly7JCdMJkyL71thkupHNQkuYIxreuKYFKvrr3A8IeG4GeylNAIXlKKR-mn0RjhBo5q_yJ13kbUsP8FuwNS_YWENs7pAELCRvF96EKKZd_I-O4LAiBQIPkgnBSyD-EAnpLsyEGfJ2ZevEPm5fAEVmgN54hN9X7YPf4W5DtXrGLguFIU/s400/Clay%20Studio%20wheels.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibJ6fzxs7wqlwpzly7JCdMJkyL71thkupHNQkuYIxreuKYFKvrr3A8IeG4GeylNAIXlKKR-mn0RjhBo5q_yJ13kbUsP8FuwNS_YWENs7pAELCRvF96EKKZd_I-O4LAiBQIPkgnBSyD-EAnpLsyEGfJ2ZevEPm5fAEVmgN54hN9X7YPf4W5DtXrGLguFIU/w543-h363/Clay%20Studio%20wheels.jpg" width="543" /></a></div>Some of the wheels for throwing pottery<div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgYm9ct5Tf-of5TPfE4LrckINXtEfsgOLEHZwe00r4U08AVkMy0sSur3L-DLmbGUkVWngr2trK5qFOcNiFreKEAdgjYmQhsf5eiOKhxx_YM0Qdl3s0Sl12lTUq3FkWbiUE4sQLhD-9fpcwkAOocgY3p1KC0u85ERshSKYxDLW9hypN4xj4DZDmk7YXryQ/s400/Clay%20StudioSlab%20roller.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgYm9ct5Tf-of5TPfE4LrckINXtEfsgOLEHZwe00r4U08AVkMy0sSur3L-DLmbGUkVWngr2trK5qFOcNiFreKEAdgjYmQhsf5eiOKhxx_YM0Qdl3s0Sl12lTUq3FkWbiUE4sQLhD-9fpcwkAOocgY3p1KC0u85ERshSKYxDLW9hypN4xj4DZDmk7YXryQ/w650-h435/Clay%20StudioSlab%20roller.jpg" width="650" /></a></div>An excellent big slab roller in front of the wedging table against the wall.<br /><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ExHZcz3IkvU/VJGo19oSwGI/AAAAAAAAfmE/Me5cm_Z8mVE/s1600/IMG_8928.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ExHZcz3IkvU/VJGo19oSwGI/AAAAAAAAfmE/Me5cm_Z8mVE/s1600/IMG_8928.JPG" width="298" /></a></p><div>Charles Freeland is the studio manager, and teaches classes, formulates glazes, sets up gallery exhibits, and monitors the open studio which I attend 3 times a week.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Today's quote:</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the hidden side of things. They bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language—the word ‘enthusiasm’—en theos—a god within. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also see the BMCA signage about the CLay Studio that I posted about <a href="https://blackmountainbarb.blogspot.com/">HERE</a> in Living in Black Mountain blog.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-2466554635527671252024-03-01T03:00:00.000-05:002024-03-01T03:00:00.151-05:00Some of my favorites<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMBUo9cc8a4-WMMUXI8azRqsumFpfg6TLMSvkLp0KjV0B9e4cVMMekSZOEWnFuwlxMKb8oX-eSKOts8CBQ5k7L8Ee666xG8MrguCxVESfjKzb_DDdOT7H727BTsmxnrsNYcQQtcKlVwkS_PQRf9soHrZKRkl9YUZ7ML9etJPdMhlhjIraJyRF_NhfaxE/s1205/Mihai%20Olteanu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1205" data-original-width="843" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMBUo9cc8a4-WMMUXI8azRqsumFpfg6TLMSvkLp0KjV0B9e4cVMMekSZOEWnFuwlxMKb8oX-eSKOts8CBQ5k7L8Ee666xG8MrguCxVESfjKzb_DDdOT7H727BTsmxnrsNYcQQtcKlVwkS_PQRf9soHrZKRkl9YUZ7ML9etJPdMhlhjIraJyRF_NhfaxE/w378-h540/Mihai%20Olteanu.jpg" width="378" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Mihai Olteanu</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO30bYYx1PiJiSXtXwLXrT-gY7JApIN316Wx2RDNF7bCXcpCSvgO8lqasfiFkr6rWSWMUUHItkeUUWkm6x32gixnS31aWUv6WwkkxzzA6v_DKU8Ko0QtJDym2Vn0k5LVPx4R2y3wZCBcKMtC3Kd1H8UfpiPP5UQ544w_7Os-w9_cC5jLv_VGSrLn8VnxY/s843/Mitchell%20Grafton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="843" height="431" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO30bYYx1PiJiSXtXwLXrT-gY7JApIN316Wx2RDNF7bCXcpCSvgO8lqasfiFkr6rWSWMUUHItkeUUWkm6x32gixnS31aWUv6WwkkxzzA6v_DKU8Ko0QtJDym2Vn0k5LVPx4R2y3wZCBcKMtC3Kd1H8UfpiPP5UQ544w_7Os-w9_cC5jLv_VGSrLn8VnxY/w452-h431/Mitchell%20Grafton.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Michael Grifton</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ_8B_whrveokaKFy5P5AOnjm4AQuG8VIh5IEY_4r1pcZEJemQrY4ZjOwxCHaWm-qVUynBewHiWJ6nPpetw8AXemmJ2UPcu07Tb_LdlgFxTEptRwtidVgDwKcWwV-uLGm1WIEDflsQ6cvCiY5EM9eWG8NbEVD4lnwhZQyoR1PSNFNbGODUgo_6AG2gisY/s660/Zulu%20art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="660" height="501" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ_8B_whrveokaKFy5P5AOnjm4AQuG8VIh5IEY_4r1pcZEJemQrY4ZjOwxCHaWm-qVUynBewHiWJ6nPpetw8AXemmJ2UPcu07Tb_LdlgFxTEptRwtidVgDwKcWwV-uLGm1WIEDflsQ6cvCiY5EM9eWG8NbEVD4lnwhZQyoR1PSNFNbGODUgo_6AG2gisY/w514-h501/Zulu%20art.jpg" width="514" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I would love to learn about their ceramics...what an interesting design, and how did they get those colors?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today's quote:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #5d5651; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 71.7756px; padding-right: 71.7756px; text-align: center;"><p style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 4px;">Listen to your heart and trust the direction you are being pulled. Something inside you already knows what to do.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;" valign="top"><p style="color: #767676; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 27px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">SPRING WASHAM</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-48515950067166140742024-02-28T06:00:00.000-05:002024-02-28T06:00:00.147-05:00Beatrice Wood<p>...the potter/artist who said "I owe it all to Art Books, Chocolate and Young Men."</p><p>Here's a snippet of her life. <a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-forgotten-legacy-of-cult-artist-beatrice-wood">https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-forgotten-legacy-of-cult-artist-beatrice-wood</a></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: ll-unica77, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Wood was a member of the New York Dada group and a pioneering sculptor. As a woman artist primarily working in ceramics, she also represented a demographic and a medium that were both marginalized during her lifetime. “More people know her for sleeping with </span><span aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class="Box-sc-15se88d-0 EntityTooltip__EntityTooltipHighlight-a60gyi-0 TrNLV" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ll-unica77, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><a class="RouterLink__RouterUnawareLink-sc-1nwbtp5-1 fuTWgz" href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/marcel-duchamp" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: color 250ms ease 0s;" text-decoration="none">Duchamp</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: ll-unica77, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> than for making her own work,” the artist </span><span aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class="Box-sc-15se88d-0 EntityTooltip__EntityTooltipHighlight-a60gyi-0 TrNLV" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ll-unica77, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><a class="RouterLink__RouterUnawareLink-sc-1nwbtp5-1 fuTWgz" href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/arlene-shechet" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: color 250ms ease 0s;" text-decoration="none">Arlene Shechet</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: ll-unica77, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> told me when we discussed Wood’s legacy. “That needs to be rectified.” </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: ll-unica77, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Though a 1993 documentary later dubbed Wood the “Mama of Dada,” she is rarely listed among the movement’s pioneers. But in 1917, both she and Duchamp submitted works to the Society of Independent Artists’ first exhibition, which would double as Dada’s coming out.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: ll-unica77, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">“She was sort of the sensation of the show,” explains Francis Naumann, a Dada scholar, dealer, and dear friend of Wood’s. “Her work was attacked by the press.” The offending painting showed a woman’s naked torso with a real piece of soap affixed “at a very tactical position,” Wood would later </span><a href="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-beatrice-wood-12423" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: ll-unica77, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; transition: color 250ms ease 0s;">explain</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: ll-unica77, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">. </span></p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBRA5LkIFPBkgdC32-WA0-aN88ihkx0nJP5hfOu5EG4VkOUnfsWFFt6u7_mTrqqqOexvQqj9GZn_1asBQ-N-WlkQkMHSdYfS_GAewM1MvDWZzM57Ehp0S76r0liQd7ni_dvdIYjwP8g_RyL4qF6idfyxQuuMwtKGJN9SDAjXhjEF4cLlNvUxL30pIZltE/s882/Early%20Beatrice%20Wood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="882" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBRA5LkIFPBkgdC32-WA0-aN88ihkx0nJP5hfOu5EG4VkOUnfsWFFt6u7_mTrqqqOexvQqj9GZn_1asBQ-N-WlkQkMHSdYfS_GAewM1MvDWZzM57Ehp0S76r0liQd7ni_dvdIYjwP8g_RyL4qF6idfyxQuuMwtKGJN9SDAjXhjEF4cLlNvUxL30pIZltE/w625-h412/Early%20Beatrice%20Wood.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipTdA7NnejZO9JibjviuY244MIXCowlRe2I4PGtjbLuLUmafVbe2PebHX719pA2v92eksQ4syfpgpRIvGrC777U0fP0UhsXjn5qtIP5Fy1DA9MOfRPJlFCzfi3VszNl0wuHMWw2KcLFVYHf62tvUQqrwEdw4uYtkGzr9TpBVONhTcnya7XuP-K4zK64Cg/s1088/Beatrice%20Wood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipTdA7NnejZO9JibjviuY244MIXCowlRe2I4PGtjbLuLUmafVbe2PebHX719pA2v92eksQ4syfpgpRIvGrC777U0fP0UhsXjn5qtIP5Fy1DA9MOfRPJlFCzfi3VszNl0wuHMWw2KcLFVYHf62tvUQqrwEdw4uYtkGzr9TpBVONhTcnya7XuP-K4zK64Cg/s320/Beatrice%20Wood.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ll-unica77, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; margin: 20px auto;">In the last 20 years of her life, between the late 1970s and her death in 1998, Wood’s work did receive attention, thanks to support from several influential dealers—namely Naumann, who was based in New York, and Garth Clark, in L.A. Her prices rose, and for the first time since relinquishing her family’s fortune, she was making a healthy income. “In her diary, up through her 70s, she worries about infrequent sales, even having enough money for groceries,” explains Kevin Wallace, the Director of Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, a small museum run lovingly out of Wood’s former Ojai home and studio. “But, by the time she passed away, her estate had about $3 million in it.” It was during this period of prosperity that Midler paid her visit, and that Jasper Johns bought one of Wood’s works.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ll-unica77, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; margin: 20px auto;">But the momentum wouldn’t survive the artist’s death. After her passing, the prices of her work plummeted. “The success was great for Beatrice, but it also encouraged speculation,” explains Naumann. “Amateur speculators realized that she would soon die, so they just kept buying her work. Then of course, they flooded the market as soon as she died, and the prices went down staggeringly. In fact, I bought one of her chalices at auction for less than $10,000—the same type that were sold for over $100,000 during her lifetime.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ll-unica77, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; margin: 20px auto;">It isn’t easy to see Wood’s work in person these days. The trip to Ojai is a long one for most, and the museums that do own her work rarely show it. But Wood’s passionate tribe of supporters, like the Wallaces, Naumann, Shechet, and many more, are committed to resurrecting her legacy—as a Dadaist, a pioneering sculptor, and an irreverent feminist of her own design.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Did I mention she lived to be 105 and was working in her studio even then! That's why there were vultures circling to acquire her work, and too bad, they were just greedy and smashed her market value.</p><p>She was quite an artist, and I love her experiments with glazes, which aren't really mentioned much in that article.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB2BgCDQZrM7ujBoS96dE3qBQuIjbeRCfMu1YgazKGikq_zAE3EaN34x0UMoXuzD9sQHOvmRxPB28CGsjpPk9y3NysQQnn5uov9Shy96H0mFk-dJvrJow8nuxhyphenhyphenNM7eGzaRW-ZS__FZGOKmY87enAS9QMNZlPc7Vbg06KwTvA0lQqkyKeBfDOW7lqHQiA/s864/chalice%20by%20Beatrice%20Wood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="681" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB2BgCDQZrM7ujBoS96dE3qBQuIjbeRCfMu1YgazKGikq_zAE3EaN34x0UMoXuzD9sQHOvmRxPB28CGsjpPk9y3NysQQnn5uov9Shy96H0mFk-dJvrJow8nuxhyphenhyphenNM7eGzaRW-ZS__FZGOKmY87enAS9QMNZlPc7Vbg06KwTvA0lQqkyKeBfDOW7lqHQiA/s320/chalice%20by%20Beatrice%20Wood.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Chalice by Beatrice Wood</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN01mK0kZ__38b7vc3Em9pzsNg_F5nHMY5TqrHz9MIEuzyoDDob_O5vMhvlAbyGSXySb3t0A78VpehhqCTGxfSzD6Msa4R8fITy3x6ICYNcgJmNbn8i6UQKNY0ASmRlu8W3aTR4Z_iEuA9e3HZdTO2-9KKW3FWV3j7_yENEF8oYEeA9B40HPP9qUPtGgQ/s1926/figurative%20sculpture%20by%20beatrice%20wood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1926" data-original-width="1280" height="643" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN01mK0kZ__38b7vc3Em9pzsNg_F5nHMY5TqrHz9MIEuzyoDDob_O5vMhvlAbyGSXySb3t0A78VpehhqCTGxfSzD6Msa4R8fITy3x6ICYNcgJmNbn8i6UQKNY0ASmRlu8W3aTR4Z_iEuA9e3HZdTO2-9KKW3FWV3j7_yENEF8oYEeA9B40HPP9qUPtGgQ/w428-h643/figurative%20sculpture%20by%20beatrice%20wood.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><br /><p>Figurative sculpture by Beatrice Wood</p><p> </p><p>Todday's Quote:</p><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #5d5651; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 71.7756px; padding-right: 71.7756px; text-align: center;"><p style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 4px;">Just as cultivating a garden requires turning over the ground, pulling weeds, planting, and watering, doing the work of love is all about taking action.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;" valign="top"><p style="color: #767676; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 27px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">BELL HOOKS</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-83683018160455133362024-02-26T04:00:00.000-05:002024-02-26T04:00:00.133-05:00Dali' and the Impressionists - 26<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbCAsi4MxEqB5i_TFh6g8puCMcWYOEhLwbNPnTlY_MynyqzVFc8dD81HGB4jDFGEDHtFdtHBZ-2H25LP2MBY0T0FsMGQErKM60FuZw-_sES_J8r1Y7m2XeRvlaesmExQx1BwZk_dL26uzH-BMI9umtH36DPaVONuusBo2KXavq1oxT8jSf5FgCl6yzIwE/s2016/IMG_9630.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thank you for looking over my shoulder as I wandered through this exhibit in December 2023. It was a very inspiring time. </div><br /><p></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-85705465768050713922024-02-24T04:00:00.000-05:002024-02-24T04:00:00.132-05:00Dali' and the Impressionists - 25<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi81g5RC05hw3k6Zi-s2pd_u58RTUpxKVZSdO-b9yqD9MIiha13W_es-o3bIxE-R37cuMS74aixGzjdXyGhG1HSANZwROgcXIs5eZ3kznVtBgS1WC488GmOJ9yfL2XgQDVGtHUjmN5r1Z7ivYgC9QTwGfKod03aeW-nlXt54L-bM-qAllQcaX_3baX0nqg/s1405/IMG_9627.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1405" data-original-width="984" height="643" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi81g5RC05hw3k6Zi-s2pd_u58RTUpxKVZSdO-b9yqD9MIiha13W_es-o3bIxE-R37cuMS74aixGzjdXyGhG1HSANZwROgcXIs5eZ3kznVtBgS1WC488GmOJ9yfL2XgQDVGtHUjmN5r1Z7ivYgC9QTwGfKod03aeW-nlXt54L-bM-qAllQcaX_3baX0nqg/w450-h643/IMG_9627.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRr8j1-hJ_qzUOk8_rviNJzoZInilKaFfqDSU6PpKCz7QbZcOn0h1O6G9BKz1MiMIDaphYZXMQxLalbbbLb9aRMYB4p5EboekGNCKbaESZKdcGaKhQYnRKVpUA9TsaHGqZTdDe6vtm8t5lXqsoS3Tubt6rCfyJ-_pl80yjG6JwfCbqyc_aUOZ8yDgj8as/s2016/IMG_9626.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRr8j1-hJ_qzUOk8_rviNJzoZInilKaFfqDSU6PpKCz7QbZcOn0h1O6G9BKz1MiMIDaphYZXMQxLalbbbLb9aRMYB4p5EboekGNCKbaESZKdcGaKhQYnRKVpUA9TsaHGqZTdDe6vtm8t5lXqsoS3Tubt6rCfyJ-_pl80yjG6JwfCbqyc_aUOZ8yDgj8as/w500-h666/IMG_9626.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj038PWkoSg1d0d9nYk01cejXhsZanMxNo9l-JxTiampg3ws2a1yjzP6Zhk9xL1xRBvCLwhWhywQoYq4IdgCEvJbc2p16T-sp5F8DFF2UReQjMKxqDSjHVhux8b50KKVuBaQCqT2-IvR-A1mCXLo-Pt4FpPt03pc9UTFk7LYoviPgttuLAM2zjfavsBNXw/s1381/IMG_9625.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1381" data-original-width="988" height="698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj038PWkoSg1d0d9nYk01cejXhsZanMxNo9l-JxTiampg3ws2a1yjzP6Zhk9xL1xRBvCLwhWhywQoYq4IdgCEvJbc2p16T-sp5F8DFF2UReQjMKxqDSjHVhux8b50KKVuBaQCqT2-IvR-A1mCXLo-Pt4FpPt03pc9UTFk7LYoviPgttuLAM2zjfavsBNXw/w500-h698/IMG_9625.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQD8rjqbAUdEvR5SjatTwhf-FDBdaO6fs3xsCYNQNao8MGrys4kpYAfnsD-CAt-2uBw4pyoHJAlHN86cJxxGpFbCOd1mqzmqoXankH1MsV683-WPHAL38XoQu1OjZcKkw7ZpC-8gNP4kF61vG3_Nk30JVrdalrFSJD7SE1y98UPVSE39YFTxVz3T6tUMw/s1363/IMG_9624.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="1307" height="586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQD8rjqbAUdEvR5SjatTwhf-FDBdaO6fs3xsCYNQNao8MGrys4kpYAfnsD-CAt-2uBw4pyoHJAlHN86cJxxGpFbCOd1mqzmqoXankH1MsV683-WPHAL38XoQu1OjZcKkw7ZpC-8gNP4kF61vG3_Nk30JVrdalrFSJD7SE1y98UPVSE39YFTxVz3T6tUMw/w562-h586/IMG_9624.jpg" width="562" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-16503612354463665722024-02-23T09:30:00.000-05:002024-02-23T09:30:33.090-05:00On Henri Matisse<p> Heron Dance Journal has been sending out weekly publications for a while, since I signed up for them. He also writes "A Pause of Beauty" where I recently read this as part of his article about gratitude. It kind of goes astray from that topic, but I enjoyed the information on Matisse, which I had forgotten (or more likely was omitted) from Art History classes.</p><p class="" style="background-color: #f7e6d5; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 17.2396px; line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"The life of Henri Matisse, one of the most controversial artists of his day, is an interesting example [of gratitude, as more common as we approach the later stages of life.] Matisse went through a major life change in 1939 at the age of 69. He was diagnosed with colon cancer, underwent a major operation and separated from his wife.</p><p class="" style="background-color: #f7e6d5; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 17.2396px; line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As a younger man his paintings, in particular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_with_a_Hat#/media/File:Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: unset; background-origin: initial; background-position: unset; background-repeat: unset; background-size: unset; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 0.2em; white-space: initial;" target="_blank">Woman with a Hat</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_with_a_Hat#/media/File:Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: unset; background-origin: initial; background-position: unset; background-repeat: unset; background-size: unset; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 0.2em; white-space: initial;">,</a> were the subjects of widespread condemnation and ridicule, mostly because of the use of wild, unorthodox colors. A reproduction of his 1913 Nu Blue (Blue Nude) was<a href="https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/april-2010/henri-matisse-art-institute-of-chicago/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: unset; background-origin: initial; background-position: unset; background-repeat: unset; background-size: unset; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 0.2em; white-space: initial;" target="_blank"> burned in effigy at the Armory Show in Chicago in 1913</a>. (It is interesting to compare that painting to one he did toward the end of his life, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Nudes#/media/File:Blue_Nudes_Henri_Matisse.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: unset; background-origin: initial; background-position: unset; background-repeat: unset; background-size: unset; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 0.2em; white-space: initial;" target="_blank"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Nu blue II</em>.</a>)</p><p class="" style="background-color: #f7e6d5; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 17.2396px; line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And in his personal life too he was controversial. He was prone to sexual humor and to songs that made fun of the church. Once he broke up a café concert because, he said, the idea seemed fun at the time. He had a hard time keeping models because of his inclination toward profanity. His first child was born out of wedlock. As he aged though, he seems to have mellowed. The illness in particular seems to have inspired a change. During his recovery, much of which he was confined to bed or a wheelchair, he wrote:</p><blockquote style="background-color: #f7e6d5; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 17.2396px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="" style="color: var(--tweak-paragraph-medium-color-on-background); line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I have needed all that time to reach the stage where I can say what I want to say. . . Only what I created after the illness constitutes my real self: free, liberated.</p></blockquote><p class="" style="background-color: #f7e6d5; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 17.2396px; line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The book <a href="https://amzn.to/3OPTuv8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: unset; background-origin: initial; background-position: unset; background-repeat: unset; background-size: unset; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 0.2em; white-space: initial;" target="_blank">Jazz</a>, based on his cutouts, was written during the first years of his recovery. He particularly labored over the words — although only six or seven typewritten pages, he continued to revise them for three years after the images were finished. Much of his writing in that book and in subsequent years related in some way to love, gratitude and spirituality.</p><p class="" style="background-color: #f7e6d5; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 17.2396px; line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">During the last fifteen years of his life, he developed close, long-lasting friendships with his models including one who became a nun. That friendship led him to create the stained glass windows of <a href="https://www.musee-matisse-nice.org/en/the-artist/matisse-and-the-rosary-chapel/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: unset; background-origin: initial; background-position: unset; background-repeat: unset; background-size: unset; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 0.2em; white-space: initial;" target="_blank">Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence</a> on the grounds of the convent where she lived. And, after years of rivalry, his friendship with Picasso deepened. They frequently exchanged gifts, including of each other's art.</p><p class="" style="background-color: #f7e6d5; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 17.2396px; line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">That image — of an aging man, a gentle man, at peace with life — reveling in the beauty around him and in his friendships, is an inspiring one. A good end to a courageous, creative life.</p><p class="" style="background-color: #f7e6d5; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 17.2396px; line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></p><p class="" style="background-color: #f7e6d5; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 17.2396px; line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Here's an interesting short video of him at work."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="371" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6svhH4mhBv8" width="447" youtube-src-id="6svhH4mhBv8"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-22909055882665138632024-02-22T03:00:00.000-05:002024-02-22T03:00:00.133-05:00Gustav Klimt<p> A fun GIF from Facebook, if it works...</p><p><a href="https://i.giphy.com/l46C91vROkPpt6fv2.gif?fbclid=IwAR2dATttfRc1RDR-k_xMtXUHffuP2fDeSl80LJH3K_rCadTyvIJj960Bug8">https://i.giphy.com/l46C91vROkPpt6fv2.gif?fbclid=IwAR2dATttfRc1RDR-k_xMtXUHffuP2fDeSl80LJH3K_rCadTyvIJj960Bug8</a></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOAj7AILNHP3FnVkr3N7qnDKU-JtSHUWZhzXpU9t5JH36BikRIFdujOP3sSbzS8UKHKJiujThsjR9UbDIU99JwDc0hy2c24buZUQ-Q-zqkWJe1G_dJKLjH9uAmPKw5hbvwK3ARUF3sSnZW9j8zb-qyhhn4LJM1bkODahLnsTqLMWF7Ahzs9VxdTtHcTBw/s960/Feb%2017%20World%20Cat%20Day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="669" height="623" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOAj7AILNHP3FnVkr3N7qnDKU-JtSHUWZhzXpU9t5JH36BikRIFdujOP3sSbzS8UKHKJiujThsjR9UbDIU99JwDc0hy2c24buZUQ-Q-zqkWJe1G_dJKLjH9uAmPKw5hbvwK3ARUF3sSnZW9j8zb-qyhhn4LJM1bkODahLnsTqLMWF7Ahzs9VxdTtHcTBw/w434-h623/Feb%2017%20World%20Cat%20Day.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And while we're being somewhat disrespectful of the artist, I just saw that Feb. 17 was World Cat Day. So I missed it this year! </span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">But you probably would prefer to see something he painted without it being adjusted.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_KCpYJ8aM_45jbnHsrFEHbTMvdcvpyWKFdPhcE_BV8_7YB7QwfWcwTnkTNOBHpw8Oj74epKyMwDu9zjPVjefLgOQm3AoJ9HIn6PBCuWR1UrdNl2B3p2tMRshO9CmkrKrkvpN6ippE8rIi2cX8zEQEMxyO586J2KJAVkwb7oDda6nWnZHB0aNGartBgY/s906/Gustav%20Klimt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="600" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_KCpYJ8aM_45jbnHsrFEHbTMvdcvpyWKFdPhcE_BV8_7YB7QwfWcwTnkTNOBHpw8Oj74epKyMwDu9zjPVjefLgOQm3AoJ9HIn6PBCuWR1UrdNl2B3p2tMRshO9CmkrKrkvpN6ippE8rIi2cX8zEQEMxyO586J2KJAVkwb7oDda6nWnZHB0aNGartBgY/w335-h506/Gustav%20Klimt.jpg" width="335" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn." -Gustav Klimt"</span></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-79902762425271797362024-02-20T04:00:00.000-05:002024-02-20T04:00:00.133-05:00Dali' and the Impressionists - 24<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNtzG-8l-eazGN_dT67D5hevG6-lM8lMRuZV10o_s3-GqYyA7tAE_bC5jaEzpqI50NAtitFNAOzFKLgSTynhpoEuOC9e3W60o8Gvqq1hHulP_zo5GkVkuuGtcbuKg-lhJnol0xLo3K1j3BXK-ASbckrAkF6u1ivcEwUR_yzX8zveNGNOxoMiSoVuJ4Ybo/s1530/IMG_9616.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1530" data-original-width="1102" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNtzG-8l-eazGN_dT67D5hevG6-lM8lMRuZV10o_s3-GqYyA7tAE_bC5jaEzpqI50NAtitFNAOzFKLgSTynhpoEuOC9e3W60o8Gvqq1hHulP_zo5GkVkuuGtcbuKg-lhJnol0xLo3K1j3BXK-ASbckrAkF6u1ivcEwUR_yzX8zveNGNOxoMiSoVuJ4Ybo/w443-h616/IMG_9616.jpg" width="443" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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That way the thinner pieces will dry slowly as the more bulky parts dry...and hopefully they won't shrink apart. Sometimes it works.<p></p><p><br /></p><p>Today's quote:</p><p><i style="background-color: #fdfaf5; color: #111111; font-family: times; font-size: x-large; text-align: -webkit-center;">It is through our connection to our light that we know things beyond what the visible world can tell us.</i></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-54163012770578484112024-02-16T03:00:00.004-05:002024-02-16T03:00:00.165-05:00Playing with dragons again<p> There are many potters working in the studio to hone their talents in order to make a special something.</p><p>I'm just there for the pleasure of exploring what I can do. It's the process not the product that I'm interested in.</p><p>Here's my first try at dragon making. Many many problems with it, so it shall be tossed soon. I am curious if it will even stay together during a bisque firing.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSKf781CZYQECoF4agwPOwOfqVFiNtLepIN9mKadAXE-wT48LnHJby2779ab3FVulWU-rN682HwYiIzVdAYXE7O5XOKX8xoxE-X3LdNpdxmfoQZHqgAB6zFAGi1xcUXlGZWyr6mR9aDiRbCtewqwem1liZUBsjVadazmZNMYdGSJn2Ce6D7CBq7lBwQ00/s4032/IMG_0190.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSKf781CZYQECoF4agwPOwOfqVFiNtLepIN9mKadAXE-wT48LnHJby2779ab3FVulWU-rN682HwYiIzVdAYXE7O5XOKX8xoxE-X3LdNpdxmfoQZHqgAB6zFAGi1xcUXlGZWyr6mR9aDiRbCtewqwem1liZUBsjVadazmZNMYdGSJn2Ce6D7CBq7lBwQ00/s320/IMG_0190.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibVvDBfd7NChimLGghcJrqlRk5tM7f4HZg7j0VF9faCBGoimArNPS1dPOZ7uQu00g2sV3JAfF3R5lUHN7TkWtBslFsB_3v1vs8i7NFYvqIC2eS0EmzhOUPXiRteDEzt6BqkLeJZNsSHxsR6kCBWW3x5AsVvnB1EFWMr9QTGk676_sz7RImeULJGQzRKps/s4032/IMG_0189.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibVvDBfd7NChimLGghcJrqlRk5tM7f4HZg7j0VF9faCBGoimArNPS1dPOZ7uQu00g2sV3JAfF3R5lUHN7TkWtBslFsB_3v1vs8i7NFYvqIC2eS0EmzhOUPXiRteDEzt6BqkLeJZNsSHxsR6kCBWW3x5AsVvnB1EFWMr9QTGk676_sz7RImeULJGQzRKps/s320/IMG_0189.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>As always I get carried away with the heads.</p><p>Number two is in process now.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEindA5VUDHXM5k1pk69hW-jtLCGdwZjOdPOpo83JwDS8hbIuKYsNVAvHmtKWEgETALjtQ5PoH7WBC6h8Dgn5DvLamojDqHRNyXpvwQc17UtjaSRySO0y7NPWVBGNo8gjoyv1jvswcuqRGj9Pi10ba22TLzJGQRRrnTxguU5qYvl7YTkkqR8SiAbYAGPj0g/s2016/IMG_0212.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEindA5VUDHXM5k1pk69hW-jtLCGdwZjOdPOpo83JwDS8hbIuKYsNVAvHmtKWEgETALjtQ5PoH7WBC6h8Dgn5DvLamojDqHRNyXpvwQc17UtjaSRySO0y7NPWVBGNo8gjoyv1jvswcuqRGj9Pi10ba22TLzJGQRRrnTxguU5qYvl7YTkkqR8SiAbYAGPj0g/s320/IMG_0212.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0XJLFjKkhdKvMRrrrobe6t3VLG57vjHcpXc7luw9UXLTSuLN8AMZBAHfF3rQIyEDXdMgFZTBWnoMrGp5N-uLbChpd4VlCRShGYSMxx9sgT0hioi7-iTXF86sglnjQO0VXNzhSYq7XFBGkRJpTtJ9vjEowpfpqVw0lRM8p2CUbz06c4NxggXYLPPLpB9s/s2016/IMG_0211.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0XJLFjKkhdKvMRrrrobe6t3VLG57vjHcpXc7luw9UXLTSuLN8AMZBAHfF3rQIyEDXdMgFZTBWnoMrGp5N-uLbChpd4VlCRShGYSMxx9sgT0hioi7-iTXF86sglnjQO0VXNzhSYq7XFBGkRJpTtJ9vjEowpfpqVw0lRM8p2CUbz06c4NxggXYLPPLpB9s/s320/IMG_0211.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>And while I was at it I made a little ruin of a castle tower. No dragon. Just playing around.</p><p>We learned in counseling that the "process" was the important part of talking with clients...not a goal. Unfortunately all insurance and medical files insist on setting goals and measuring progress toward them. That's why I gladly went over to being an Activity Director. Many happy times shared with many people. But do you know what I remember most? The bad things that happened.</p><p>With clay I don't. I just toss things away when they fail. The "thing" isn't as important as what I've learned from it.</p><p>I always used to say with pottery "everything is sacred (thus the act of creation flowing through a potter's hands) but nothing is sacred (thus it is not to be cherished as an item of worship!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Today's quote:</p><p><i style="background-color: #fdfaf5; color: #111111; font-family: times; font-size: x-large; text-align: -webkit-center;">It is easy to laugh when we feel good, but it is when the world appears dim that we most need laughter in our lives</i></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-22223682667957572952024-02-15T04:00:00.008-05:002024-02-15T04:00:00.129-05:00Dali' and the Impressionists - 22<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgntv8VQqDHeTm4XBuiZVNtn2spX7ZhkvOaFvU5A6yhYu5U1X05cG5ygIXqwkXYn9TjY-M2Qscq8HC1Ebe17KZkmEb_J68vkCZxw-1LfmnGR4dBdQsM7MEBHK_jw7JlHN8mNILuFhh048G-4mB9H8crp0U7V-Qw103TvrOULdDvncMgAOLjAL_fRoK_0jI/s1415/IMG_9608.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Sorry for blurry description: Paul Gauguin, Entrance to the Village of Osny</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRZW3iIr1xVpNs3HZ-M7CVPPmUYqLqWjbtOnW7TEc910k6WmPfJxAIa-U7CjNZl8oKVjJ3xSwNXiguj5cDO3rU7uFoKDZe2KkPcey8zIT8F9w-Oyd5kRLnbM01dtoHuOYKg8CQRgvRG_J2ivT_hyUbrVuUyrSRcWMPeV1a60tXmE9BOdnDa7G0iZkLmY/s1551/IMG_9605.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1551" data-original-width="1512" height="523" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRZW3iIr1xVpNs3HZ-M7CVPPmUYqLqWjbtOnW7TEc910k6WmPfJxAIa-U7CjNZl8oKVjJ3xSwNXiguj5cDO3rU7uFoKDZe2KkPcey8zIT8F9w-Oyd5kRLnbM01dtoHuOYKg8CQRgvRG_J2ivT_hyUbrVuUyrSRcWMPeV1a60tXmE9BOdnDa7G0iZkLmY/w509-h523/IMG_9605.jpg" width="509" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg75zrP_-jYXV83BrRBbfVqQpXCl9M-I8sn0qHqyAhNTHw9zNifM3n24sn_eIOKNkShYAUKht15oHhn-xyBae51bOBZ3FrjMx3lofle2IYYDf-3Zat31h-6hitCadEl0eFQzf65IRQY1sEIViSE_AWHptK2WZj1ATDuLr9OQF7lxc50Ct3Bmw509ZgcsVA/s1234/IMG_9607.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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That sometimes happens with pottery!</div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjns8ybra6ljbEhQUwqyxUIcNuUHdwGv6d4DC9dpepiddBN36K37ZaXmupDQDU_LfrL8jJJ7rB6vt6Mepvd31SCZTbSWFV1U3fQ-o56CJpiCve9WzLo8u33QNl4cD9bHTBpwUp_ajI0130dBKy2yjSW9IMEAC_etJ_mCR2phgzmGv4QL3iKQ0v-py6lQTE/s640/dragon%20girl%20bird2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjns8ybra6ljbEhQUwqyxUIcNuUHdwGv6d4DC9dpepiddBN36K37ZaXmupDQDU_LfrL8jJJ7rB6vt6Mepvd31SCZTbSWFV1U3fQ-o56CJpiCve9WzLo8u33QNl4cD9bHTBpwUp_ajI0130dBKy2yjSW9IMEAC_etJ_mCR2phgzmGv4QL3iKQ0v-py6lQTE/w431-h574/dragon%20girl%20bird2.JPG" width="431" /></a></div>Dragon girl with bird.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnuEPQ4xvFz42lEeVNTNmSIumeYhCmfWpTGARG47zo2sWZ-byn7nXIBNVTulv7lmXvKsA0O6Da_9cbatmAmJSXZ9ZgJZSRJM2hzvNz2nrWlAxO99nUER54G7kYzilXJ8uaWdihI-ZA00uLufi7FOkxW8H9ALtO2FrLs_lAlcFGNUcXdHN3c8ZcLVgXdkQ/s640/Dragon%20girl%20bird1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="677" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnuEPQ4xvFz42lEeVNTNmSIumeYhCmfWpTGARG47zo2sWZ-byn7nXIBNVTulv7lmXvKsA0O6Da_9cbatmAmJSXZ9ZgJZSRJM2hzvNz2nrWlAxO99nUER54G7kYzilXJ8uaWdihI-ZA00uLufi7FOkxW8H9ALtO2FrLs_lAlcFGNUcXdHN3c8ZcLVgXdkQ/w508-h677/Dragon%20girl%20bird1.JPG" width="508" /></a></div>I think this one sold.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today's quote:</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #341473; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #341473; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">—Jack Layton</span></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999463332198347326.post-45575429946476875362024-02-13T04:00:00.002-05:002024-02-13T04:00:00.128-05:00Dali' and the Impressionists - 21<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2OJANiYyvsMPF0Y0IVl_WAPU7ov3f30A6KlTGYec2Q7umuDp9u565NPCnqp-mXl30-xk89NZdBMHatHdSAsVG0_9aVWeKzexlTwPzjba3mnAYIBm7MCRw1sPQmyYg-mcQ6C762TUqjlGW0drqg3FcbBUJ4vuVWlEn588QVyRyCmpPimo421RwanAnQPM/s1528/IMG_9601.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="1098" height="592" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2OJANiYyvsMPF0Y0IVl_WAPU7ov3f30A6KlTGYec2Q7umuDp9u565NPCnqp-mXl30-xk89NZdBMHatHdSAsVG0_9aVWeKzexlTwPzjba3mnAYIBm7MCRw1sPQmyYg-mcQ6C762TUqjlGW0drqg3FcbBUJ4vuVWlEn588QVyRyCmpPimo421RwanAnQPM/w426-h592/IMG_9601.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW2cjrlcoi-CRFbFzDflZy_wEDGiaBYFSfXb_z-rDfIMTw2wyQRByrh-2bnGt2N6IEilXVVxW7cHAZ2vadKus_P0TpXjSv_gSoF_o8kSPghh6fiyE5rXeVYWaky9Kn8hs5NNjED3AfN3ggFUwwv1phEs-H1ce2XxYfD5SX5LVXbBuMbgIzIbtyC_zkKYY/w537-h403/horse%20faced%20dragon.JPG" width="537" /></a></p><div>The back side of a winged dragon with a horsey face</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHholdB1KhkYckXr5K7TSAzxw0ebznOBNVy5yVFQ1ekzAyP2LTOsec5hlUlZYK2DAlE6xdcTh9tZwclosJzRewTPXluBsNDrV4Q9zm6X1mYUogSed15AGiaY54x6YzOw5lhBLUmPC04dr3gNgPScTIG28N1vnZ-zcYKff4TMlNw6eS530MPEYzjP-CXE/s640/horse%20faced%20dragon2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHholdB1KhkYckXr5K7TSAzxw0ebznOBNVy5yVFQ1ekzAyP2LTOsec5hlUlZYK2DAlE6xdcTh9tZwclosJzRewTPXluBsNDrV4Q9zm6X1mYUogSed15AGiaY54x6YzOw5lhBLUmPC04dr3gNgPScTIG28N1vnZ-zcYKff4TMlNw6eS530MPEYzjP-CXE/w523-h392/horse%20faced%20dragon2.JPG" width="523" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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As you can see, I was working at home on this one, which was always a transportation headache to get it to the studio to be fired in one piece.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlQRg80aNUCPBDveEOMkt8RYRv7J6uZ5kdRpFJ4p3sNdeAbePhUPtxwwi46ots3lv4ZYCIyCBXPz14DFf8XH1svXvigw4b4hHstVGBC90eyX7wHGDiZQUtqpOjobSUDTf-tm60fBTnVkbqWd90sEAqW72j4ng4Z00XhM7YL8VJclR1G52ubX1Dmq99s6k/s640/lil%20dragon2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlQRg80aNUCPBDveEOMkt8RYRv7J6uZ5kdRpFJ4p3sNdeAbePhUPtxwwi46ots3lv4ZYCIyCBXPz14DFf8XH1svXvigw4b4hHstVGBC90eyX7wHGDiZQUtqpOjobSUDTf-tm60fBTnVkbqWd90sEAqW72j4ng4Z00XhM7YL8VJclR1G52ubX1Dmq99s6k/w416-h554/lil%20dragon2.JPG" width="416" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A tiny dragon</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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