For some
reason I keep going back to making smallish covered boxes, there are likely
endless possibilities so each one takes own its own personality and challenges.
The illustrated greenware box now waiting on a bisque and glaze firing brought
together a low box form together with a tripod foot, faceted planes, dot on top
and bottom to align the pieces and yet another B.C./ Prometheus inspired
finial. In throwing this piece, free styling along the way I tried to come up
with a form that despite or because of the faceted plane it still imparts a
fair degree of volume, a bit like it is puffed full of air which props up the
finial at the top. No rocket science here, just simple parts put together in a
way that I hope forms a contiguous and sensible object that at the end of the
day, yes, you guessed it, I will glaze this up in Oribe for the penultimate
surface. I am not sure exactly when
this will end up fired (in Oribe) but when it does, I'll try to remember to
post a picture or two.
"The
world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be
struck." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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