Boys Playing with Thier Light Sabers Again!

If its not falic, then it's sexist!! Some people read that stuff into EVERYTHING!

Some Stuff that Excites Me.. Oval Dishes

Hope you enjoy..

You know .. the FUNK . . ever had that?

There are many different "funks". Sometimes you can feel the "funk" . . .after to much Thai food (that one goes out to my brother . . I think he invented that one!). .. or when you hear some Hip and Jivin' music .  . . and sometimes you can be in a funk, like after a fight with your significant other ..  . or when you can't seem to get out from under that rain cloud .  . . or when everything you touch instead of turning to gold like you expect, actually breaks .. yea . .the FUNK. So I've been in a bit of an art funk lately .. at least coming into the semester, and boy did the work show it! At the insistence of assignment deadlines I made a platter.  .it was the making of that platter that left with me the feeling that pulled me out of the ever dreaded funk. Like a 10 ton winch would have jerked the Colombian mammoths out of the La Brea tar pits, had someone been there, and happened to have a 10 ton winch laying around. Here is the Platter.

Im not sure if the feling I had while making, and after the completion of the platter comes through fully, but gee whiz Wally it sure was fun . . .and exhilerating to enjoy the making once again. That was the funk saver!! hard to belive I know, but that was it.

And that platter has led to the development of the new work Im about to show you.. ..

A couple of REAL Artists!

Deric and I had a good Art conversation on the way to and from Corry this morning. . then I saw this video. if it can keep your attention through to the credits, the word artist is so funny!

Vessels for Sharing

I have to admit that it has taken me a little while to moving in the studio. Yes I do have a thesis show coming up, but I still struggled to find motivation to work .. . but, at last I've found it. And here's some of the work that I have started making.

And these are bowls, they're just upside down!

Blue Clay!!

Check out this new clay I'm working with!! It should have give some interesting results!