a Fictional Potter's Where's

i took an online course yesterday
about "ONLINE MARKETING"
it suggested making a website first
on the radio this morning- a show about an English woman who developed early onset dementia at age 58
she started a blog to help her remember and process the experience...and , this rhymes with what i am feeling moved to do.
then i read a blog called
"TOUCH MY HEART,AND I WILL WIDEN YOU TO GOD KNOWS WHERE"
- a blog that i have been reading for years now.
it seems to work for Jacqueline, so i clicked around to see about using same platform..
it asked for a name, i suggested "THE UNKOWN POTTER",
and it said it was already used !
(by me i think !)
lol...
then i went to
THINGSASTHEYAREPOTTERY".. and found the blog i had begun (in 2009 or so)
i had remembered it- but last time i tried to write in it, it seemed to have blocked me- or someone else had taken the title over... so i thought it was gone.
but maybe it is HERE again !
IS IT ?
so here i am clicking away..

Matisse and his birds...

Always liked this photo- first saw it years ago. I think it might be by Henri Cartier Bresson- a favorite photographer who later tuook to painting instead. I found it recently in Cristopher Alexanders book- "THE PROCESS OF CREATING LIFE", which is number 2 of the series. I think they are some of the best books I have come across in my life. Strange to find that so many years later we have 4 of the same doves and two cages like the square and domed one in the picture...
winter and time to ....?
I shovelled snow today.
later...

These are little cups I threw from 1/2 lbs of clay-and later stamped with an assortment of stamps. Made some wire baskets to hold 6 at a time, great for picnics and patios.

The Appearance of Blue

well- I did some blue-ish pots...for a workshop on a theater piece for RUNAWAY MOON THEATER in Grindrod. The clay for the workshop turned out if the bnox very soft and when i fely I should make something larger i thre 1/2 boxes of the clay as large as I could and sliced off the facets- passed them to Rosa Stubbington who drew on them with a water themed mind.
They are for putting the inverted water bottles on top of. Burt Cohen helped with the super Brass spigots.
The plate was a special order for a firend on Facebook- my first social-networking type request that I posted/offered on Caetani House's page..for the art/craft sale in the summer. One more to come August 14th- I should ask again!
Mostly pre-occupied picking and processing our Apricots from our tree these last days- 35 degrees in the hot part of the day so the work is in the morning. This weekend is the Komasket music festival- I volunteer so the kids can go and have fun

MOTHERS DAY 2010

Mothers Day Project for the kids classes- took my wheel to school and spent a few days helping the two classes my kids are in throw some pots for Mothers Day. I throw them basically and let them modify them to suit themselves- love the part where I center and then , with my hands covered in slip, I shake hands with each one and say "WELCOME TO THE CLAY CLUB!" Love their reactions. Told them about Axel Ebring from Upsala Sweden who came here and made pots out oif the local gumbo clay and made history with his hands...showed them his photo..and that he left his money for the "crippled children" in town. Touching story- Axel in an un-marked grave.
Am now glazing serving bowls and getting ready for an"Artists Walk"tour of studios on the weekend.
cleaning out the studio so it looks good and is safe......

Silver Star

WINTER SUMMATION

Well, it will be an early spring in a couple of days- winter has passed in a bizarre hardly any snow kind of way and the snow-pack water situation looks pretty bad for fire season. I do not have any pots for a spring firing however, so I won't be risking any torch-off of Siver Star mountain... though it could use one! I have been able to drive up to the cabin and kiln a month earlier than usual because of the lack of snow and warm weather. So I plan to fire in the fall !! I am thinking to have an "open cabin" drop-in workshop this summer for people to make pots...if any reader is interested let me know....