Can't Hurry Love

Twice a year for a couple of months there is nothing but the studio in my life. Covered in clay all the time, I keep coming up with just one more thing I want to do ( and dry and fire !) before the Open Studio date. Then comes the deadline of no more pieces...because they just wont dry in time.

I have reached that point but ideas are still flowing and the call of the clay is too strong to resist. Once again I am faced with the inevitable truth that you cant rush clay anymore than you can hurry love. Which doesn't mean we dont try ...

But in fact, its the clay that makes the decisions for me mostly, deciding when and what it wants to become; many of the pieces just got bigger and different.

I am looking forward to hearing your input.

This is an invitation.

When is done? Mixed media - 3 and 2 D.

This sculpture is called 'profile of a reluctant warrior'.
After sculpting, firing, underglazing, refiring, attaching copper and bolts and screws, I still needed to photograph and filter the photo to get the feel I wanted of distant,historic, but actual- through mixed media - clay / metal / photo
When is the piece done? And is the photo actually a separate piece ?

Belonging

Everybody belongs. To someone, something, somewhere. We think of ourselves as free individuals but we have our comfort zone. Home. And most of us have a favourite chair. A "my seat".
I have a great tv armchair with an elevating foot support that has hardly ever been in front of a tv. Its my meditation station, my reading post, my knitting, chatting, coffee, staring into nothing chair. I also have a particular way of sitting in it. Its true the chair dictates it. I started thinking about how people buy and choose a chair. How they sit on them. When they sit that way. How they belong to a chair. Here are a few of the results. You are welcome to send me some pictures of how you sit in your chair.
Take a look at this link - Shani in the Knoll chairs. (dontsmilenow.com )
Who wouldnt want to belong to a Knoll chair?