I will
spare all the recounting of a strange day, but it has been just one of those off
kilter days. Issues with customs and the Post, glaze problems, clay problems
(as in throwing), add in a day where the cat has decided to play Ninja warrior
every time you go by and you might get a sense of my meaning. I am not saying
it has been a bad day, just one of those days where everything feels as if it
has shifted five degrees off center. If
I had been craving chocolate milk, I may have credited it to a temporal rift.
Despite struggling with some very wet terra cotta, I threw what I had planned and
was able to sand some greenware and slip it without any incident, so in reality
I have little I should complain about.
Illustrated
is a shikishi painted in a vivid tone of black by Oni-Shino pioneer, Tsukigata
Nahiko. The four characters, kanji, are painted over a light gray wash most
probably representing a bamboo stalk. It has little to do with my day or post,
other than it has a nice centering effect.
"We
should tackle reality in a slightly joking way, otherwise we miss its
point." Lawrence Durrell
(1912-1990)
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