I have made a lot of pots over the years, with pots
being shipped all over the US, some to Canada and quite a few other
destinations as well, I think 21 countries in all. A number of these pots were
sold through sales, galleries, craft shows, out of the various studios and now
through internet sales, truthfully it is impossible to keep track of them and
at times they are hard to recognize in description or even photos ( especially
those from the CSU days). That being said, there are also times when it is easy
to recognize a piece through shape, lip, foot, clay color, pierced holes in the
foot for hanging and the overall posture, I believe the photo is just one such
bowl. I'll add the caveat that I am 99% sure this is my pot, acting as a prop along
side James Spader and Brian Dennehy in the TV show, BLACKLIST. I suspect the
bowl was bought at a gallery in Maryland or Virginia where I showed, both now defunct. Exactly how the v-bowl got there is beyond me as it is the second
pot that has shown up as a prop, the other a short lived Canadian TV show, so
go figure. I am kind of honored that the show runners used the bowl exactly as
I would hope as a focal point of a person's table, filled to the lip with
'stuff' just as the bowl was intended. This bowl may be just a prop but for a
fleeting instant it was center stage and after all the television transmissions
are on their way out in to the cosmos and who know who will see* the bowl next
perhaps the inhabitants of Gliese 581c?
(* Before someone decides to say something, yes I am
aware of the inverse square law and its relation to radio signal degradation.)
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