Ninefruits

I am working on a new design of a stackable bowl. I can never make enough decent, simple, stacking cereal-sized bowls. To me, simpler pots are the ones with more dignity.

::a bit of an excerpt from my thesis paper last spring::

In a piece I call the Ninefruit Bowls I feel the subject is easily identified. On nine small fruit-sized bowls I drew nine different fruits. The bowls are symbols of gifts that God has given to all people. In Scripture, Galatians 5:22 says, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control." This is an example of how my drawings can be allegorical. A dietician would recommend a small bowl of fresh fruit every day for your body, and a minister would prescribe scripture to feed the soul. These small bowls are the simplest forms I make; I believe they are also the most practical. They were made to serve.

Snake Jar

The battery in my camera is dead and between here and Montgomery we can't find the charger. So, I've managed to capture a few photos on my laptop using Photo Booth. These are a couple of new pieces I am working on, covered jar type forms.

Where there's clouds don't mean there's rain,

Tears in my eyes don't mean there's pain.

SNAKE JAR

multi-media experience

I find myself working on new projects and trying new things. Watercolors, acrylics, new collage-type stuff, some paste paper for new pamphlet books. All of these new things are an idea I have to compliment my pottery display at the Marshall Handmade Market on November 20th.

Making

There is a chill in the East Tennessee air, the season is changing and the ground has been wet for several days. The only good thing about the temperature getting colder is that it indicates football season. I am making a lot of pottery and starting some new drawings and paintings for a (flat, 2D) show I have scheduled at the Millennium Center here in Johnson City come January (more to come on that).

I heard back from a couple of juried shows I entered recently. I got a piece in at Cape Fear Gallery in Fayetteville, NC - and I got 4 small bowls in a show in Bemidji, MN. YEAH!

In progress new work: