Some weeks ago, my sweet friend Shirin came over to purchase a wedding gift for her cousin (Congratulations Tekies!). I brought out a number of my ceramic pieces to the kitchen table (made of white Corian, about 6’ long) and let her choose. When she selected the piece she wanted, I went to the other [...]
Michael Cardew, an English studio potter born in 1910, wrote, “Pottery is a fundamental craft and should be pursued in a fundamental way. Beware of all ’short cuts’. Begin at the beginning. The simplest materials and the simplest methods are often the best. The most primitive work is often the most refined. Potters must be [...]
How different is your inside from your outside? Your interior thoughts from your exterior presentation?
Some people I know have very few filters; the distance traveled between their thoughts and actions seems … short. Others are enigmatic and full of surprises. Sometimes the unfiltered people and the inscrutable people change guises. Sometimes it is apparent that [...]
My ceramics colleague, Robert Boyer, shares my fascination with obsessive, repetitive patterns and textures. So I wasn’t surprised that he drew my attention to Jen Stark, the Miami-based paper/color/X-acto artist:
She discusses in a video on her site how she got started with the obsessive paper sculptures. She went to Paris for a year-long art fellowship, [...]
I like people who see things others don’t. This guy collects on his blog images of people and objects that, well, look alike. It’s not just the “Separated at Birth” concept, however. Aref-Adib has collected some unusual pairs, like this one (Banksy/calligraphy):
Here’s a Mondrian/”Mind the gap” juxtaposition that I like a lot:
There’s also one of [...]
Some years ago, my brother and I were playing Boggle with a friend. Boggle, for those who don’t know (and I don’t know if you deserve to be told if you don’t know, but I am in a munificent mood) is a word game consisting of a small plastic board, 16 letter cubes, and a [...]
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I find this picture by Yoav very beautiful. It reminds me of something that has bothered me for some time, and for which no one has yet supplied an answer that makes sense:
Although we see and hear many birds each day, why do we almost never see dead birds? I [...]