I made this large or more correctly
defined, long oval baker some time ago and recently came across the image. At
the time that I made this I was doing some tape and newspaper resist to create
designs and decoration and this particular pattern came to be called "wavelength".
I am not sure where the name exactly came from but it does seem to suit the
undulating design which I think works fairly well on this baker which was at
least 20" long though I seem to remember longer. I made several of these
at once, working in series using a variety of designs/decorations that would
work well on the elongated forms and accentuate that length. I know it will
sound odd but this original abstrakt background came from an old western in
which a scene at dusk showed this wonderful muted Technicolor skyline, it may
have been John Ford's; SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON. It never ceases to surprise me
how thinks make there way into my clay from years of being saturated by
television and movies, countless books read, museums visited, pots seen and
handled and I would like to think that how I assemble all of these small building
blocks, the work is distinctly my own.
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