Postings which should appear on the blog.
A little earlier in the week I was contacted by an independent blogger who found my work through Saatchi and wanted to write about it. Of course I said yes, I spent the week looking at the blog because work was slow and my mind is always hungry. Anyway the results can be found here: … [Read more…]
Not long ago David Bowie died, folks took it to hear and then just a little bit farther. fb was flooded with those saddened and in stunned disbelief, my feed was a parade of videos, images and stories. There were memorials, tributes, bowie specific art shows and the town i live in (which has no … [Read more…]
this past spring i had work accepted into the san angelo 21st national ceramic competition, a biennial i’ve had the good fortune of being included in many years in the past. its driving distance from home the selection of work is always superb so i would be lying to say its not one of my … [Read more…]
actually, i know all to well what i was waiting for. the web page to fix itself or better yet a backup of the day before it died to show up in my inbox like i requested and was instructed, but i digress. it was broke, it is now fixed. so i managed without the … [Read more…]
a friend sent me this article today and it resonated in so many ways. i’ve applied the old addage, “a journey of a thousand steps begins with the first” since about age 9 and quite enjoy the pleasure of putting my feet to the pavement (ground, sand, et al) and just going – regardless of destination. … [Read more…]
a little anxious with the studio plans on hold, i easily got over it with the past couple of monsoon weekends where in we discovered: that the contractors who dug up the yard did not put all the dirt back (no, instead of packing it down they tossed what did not fit under the deck causing a … [Read more…]
between throwing and firing wedding pots and a dry salt firing of functional ware, which was more an experiment to see what residual salt would get me (the results were not too bad, and i admit the nice orange of reduction is growing on me) there wasn’t as much time this summer to get work made, … [Read more…]
one of my fb friends posed the question ‘ if you were stuck on a desert island and could only listen to one band for the rest of your days what would it be’ while it was interesting to read the choices of others, i myself chose talking heads, which then caused me to put … [Read more…]
A rose by any other name still has no teeth! a happy posthumous birthday to ludwig wittgenstein and a current happy birthday to carol burnett
well the last trip out had a small unwelcome hiccup, but i returned home safe and albeit a bit sore. its left me pondering whether it was possible i have some how entered a co dependent relationship with texas where it won’t let me quit it. however trip be damned or not i managed to … [Read more…]