CorazondeDios

Creativity curls through your heart and fingers like roses growing. Everything takes time to come to proper maturation -- including ideas.  With clay, it is the process of evolution and erosion, eking out a new piece.  You never know if the soft clay will cooperate. You never know if the water leaving it will crack or cradle the piece. You never know if the heat will firm or fracture the piece.  You never know if the glaze will love or rape the piece. Its all up to the Kiln gods of change and chance, and the Laws of Physics. Fortunately God resides over both. Unfortunately, God has a sense of humor and puts us and our pieces through trials of

Well I had a lot of inspiration today. After getting a bisque load on I was able to get back to the wheel after a week of glazing. Remembering a friend's tip that vessels start from the inside out, I tried a new method. I've never understood ribs much -- they just didn't resonate with me.I always just use my hands. Still, sometimes, I feel I need something to get the shape the way I want it besides just my fingers. I have a set of dark wooden spoons I bought in Korea. I got them for my pottery studio, not quite sure what I would do with them. But they felt right. In making small teabowls today, I picked up the smallest spoon -- it was the per

sometimes the best sound of all is silence.