WAITING

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