It
is funny how things start and despite the purpose, the origin of a piece sticks
with you. I have always made covered pieces, including small covered boxes and
the like all the way back to my CSU days. Just after I left CSU and set up my
Hillbrook studio, I was making small covered box forms when a client asked me
for something a bit specific. What she wanted was small covered boxes with a
pre-determined diameter, that resembled tops (upside down mind you), that were
brightly decorated and had the interiors covered in gold gilt. As I was to find
out the boxes were to be gifts for Hanukkah and would be filled with Hanukkah
gelt chocolate coins. The chocolates are wrapped in gold foil wrappers and
resemble gold coins and commonly come in little mesh bags but my customer
wanted to put them in something a bit fancier so I set about making a dozen of
them for her, several which found their way to Israel and France. I have made
them ever since, more specifically as small decorative covered boxes, but the
origin of this little pot has never left me and even makes me a bit nostalgic
for those days making pots in my basement in good old Cleveland.
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