Comments for Beyond the Picture http://leili.org/blog Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:28:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Comment on Are you stuck? by Leili http://leili.org/blog/2011/08/05/are-you-stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-84975 Leili Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:28:46 +0000 http://leili.org/blog/?p=222#comment-84975 Patricia - thank you so much for your comment. The mark making is indeed inspired by nature - sea creatures, seed pods, etc. - and while it may look a mechanical technique, each mark is individually made and very meditative. Not robotic. I will check out Peter Randall-Page! Yes, sometimes fighting against things is not the best strategy! THanks again for stopping by and I hope you enjoy your ceramics class to the fullest! Patricia – thank you so much for your comment. The mark making is indeed inspired by nature – sea creatures, seed pods, etc. – and while it may look a mechanical technique, each mark is individually made and very meditative. Not robotic. I will check out Peter Randall-Page!

Yes, sometimes fighting against things is not the best strategy!

THanks again for stopping by and I hope you enjoy your ceramics class to the fullest!

]]> Comment on Are you stuck? by Patricia G http://leili.org/blog/2011/08/05/are-you-stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-84898 Patricia G Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:00:52 +0000 http://leili.org/blog/?p=222#comment-84898 Hi Leili, I've just discovered your beautiful work. I particularly like your use of glaze and colour. I wondered about your mark making as it is inspired by nature but looks as if it requires you to work quite mechanically to get the regularity. Reminds me of Peter Randall-Page's sculpture. I am doing an evening course in ceramics and loving it. On the subject of getting stuck: things, people and animals seem to fight against pressure just for the sake of it. Often I find they want to do what you want them to do but they like to feel that it's their free choice. That's one way of looking at it. Another is that maybe the combination of strategies you used was what did the trick. Lovely work! Hi Leili, I’ve just discovered your beautiful work. I particularly like your use of glaze and colour. I wondered about your mark making as it is inspired by nature but looks as if it requires you to work quite mechanically to get the regularity. Reminds me of Peter Randall-Page’s sculpture. I am doing an evening course in ceramics and loving it.
On the subject of getting stuck: things, people and animals seem to fight against pressure just for the sake of it. Often I find they want to do what you want them to do but they like to feel that it’s their free choice. That’s one way of looking at it. Another is that maybe the combination of strategies you used was what did the trick.
Lovely work!

]]> Comment on About by Amir http://leili.org/blog/about/comment-page-1/#comment-80116 Amir Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:34:14 +0000 #comment-80116 Hi Leili, Great works, congs. , Leili I'm curious if you ever worked in a kindergarten or not? and did you ever been in Iran? Thanks, Amir Hi Leili,

Great works, congs. , Leili I’m curious if you ever worked in a kindergarten or not? and did you ever been in Iran?

Thanks,
Amir

]]> Comment on Are you stuck? by Leili http://leili.org/blog/2011/08/05/are-you-stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-79513 Leili Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:47:47 +0000 http://leili.org/blog/?p=222#comment-79513 Would love video of the whole thing. The things we do when no one is looking .... Would love video of the whole thing. The things we do when no one is looking ….

]]> Comment on Are you stuck? by s. http://leili.org/blog/2011/08/05/are-you-stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-79434 s. Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:54:44 +0000 http://leili.org/blog/?p=222#comment-79434 Hah! Glazing the room is soo in right now!! :o) so I managed to get "most" of the stuff off the floors, I was like a flash of lightening scrubbing every surface. The smell lingered for a couple of days, yekh! I'm pretty sure I killed my remaining brain cells in the process...ahhhh the artist's life... Hah! Glazing the room is soo in right now!! :o ) so I managed to get “most” of the stuff off the floors, I was like a flash of lightening scrubbing every surface. The smell lingered for a couple of days, yekh! I’m pretty sure I killed my remaining brain cells in the process…ahhhh the artist’s life…

]]> Comment on Are you stuck? by Leili http://leili.org/blog/2011/08/05/are-you-stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-79372 Leili Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:39:06 +0000 http://leili.org/blog/?p=222#comment-79372 Oh my goodness, Ms S - that is crazy! Spectacular! How did you get it off the floor before it dried? Why was N not there to photograph you in the shower with all your clothes on! Does everything still smell like varnish? I know it is super hot where you are right now so that certainly does not help. It reminds me of a time that some friends were mixing a new bucket of glaze, about 4 gallons' worth, in the kiln room with an industrial power mixer. They had just finished and were moving the bucket - which was very full and heavy - to the dolly. It got caught on something, tipped and rocked back and forth. The liquid built momentum, started sloshing out violently, and in the end every single surface in the room was completely covered with glaze, including the ceiling. She essentially glazed the room. We are still finding residue, and this was two years ago. Oh my goodness, Ms S – that is crazy! Spectacular! How did you get it off the floor before it dried? Why was N not there to photograph you in the shower with all your clothes on! Does everything still smell like varnish? I know it is super hot where you are right now so that certainly does not help. It reminds me of a time that some friends were mixing a new bucket of glaze, about 4 gallons’ worth, in the kiln room with an industrial power mixer. They had just finished and were moving the bucket – which was very full and heavy – to the dolly. It got caught on something, tipped and rocked back and forth. The liquid built momentum, started sloshing out violently, and in the end every single surface in the room was completely covered with glaze, including the ceiling. She essentially glazed the room. We are still finding residue, and this was two years ago.

]]> Comment on Are you stuck? by s. http://leili.org/blog/2011/08/05/are-you-stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-79371 s. Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:05:44 +0000 http://leili.org/blog/?p=222#comment-79371 p.s. both pots are so so so beautiful!!! I'm so happy you saved them!! p.s. both pots are so so so beautiful!!! I’m so happy you saved them!!

]]> Comment on Are you stuck? by s. http://leili.org/blog/2011/08/05/are-you-stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-79370 s. Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:04:41 +0000 http://leili.org/blog/?p=222#comment-79370 Hi love! I adored this post, you are brilliant! so i'll tell you what i got stuck to two days ago. A gallon of imported varnish was stuck shut, & I went at it with everything around, then in a final attempt to attack it with my bare hands the whole thing flew into my face, landed on cellphone (ruined said phone) on my books, my table, my (landlord's) floor, my bench, oh did I mention my face, hair, clothes (every item) & shoes? Yes, toxic, fast drying, carcinogenic varnish. I just yelled one very French word & started squealing like a cape cod lobster in hot water. Got in the shower with my clothes on, with one hand out of the shower holding my cell phone trying to desperately save it, & the other wiping my eyes & face. Anyway, long story short, DISASTER + almost certain death + uv protection = MEGA DISASTER minus sun damage. Love, me. Hi love! I adored this post, you are brilliant! so i’ll tell you what i got stuck to two days ago. A gallon of imported varnish was stuck shut, & I went at it with everything around, then in a final attempt to attack it with my bare hands the whole thing flew into my face, landed on cellphone (ruined said phone) on my books, my table, my (landlord’s) floor, my bench, oh did I mention my face, hair, clothes (every item) & shoes? Yes, toxic, fast drying, carcinogenic varnish. I just yelled one very French word & started squealing like a cape cod lobster in hot water. Got in the shower with my clothes on, with one hand out of the shower holding my cell phone trying to desperately save it, & the other wiping my eyes & face. Anyway, long story short, DISASTER + almost certain death + uv protection = MEGA DISASTER minus sun damage. Love, me.

]]> Comment on Are you stuck? by Leili http://leili.org/blog/2011/08/05/are-you-stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-79315 Leili Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:39:34 +0000 http://leili.org/blog/?p=222#comment-79315 Thank you, my dear Layls. They do look innocent, don't they? Fortunately, as punishment, I sent the green one away to the penal colony known as Australia. Mark! Are you telling me that with all of my million status updates and my Facebook page about works in progress and junk like that (http://www.Facebook.com/LeiliDesign) that you still escaped the knowledge that I sell my work? I suppose in some sense that is strangely comforting, because I do sometimes worry that I am oversharing. But still. For future reference, it's: http://LeiliDesign.etsy.com. No Bruce Lee themed work as of yet, so you're safe, but now I know there's a market for it .... Thank you, my dear Layls. They do look innocent, don’t they? Fortunately, as punishment, I sent the green one away to the penal colony known as Australia.

Mark! Are you telling me that with all of my million status updates and my Facebook page about works in progress and junk like that (http://www.Facebook.com/LeiliDesign) that you still escaped the knowledge that I sell my work? I suppose in some sense that is strangely comforting, because I do sometimes worry that I am oversharing. But still. For future reference, it’s: http://LeiliDesign.etsy.com. No Bruce Lee themed work as of yet, so you’re safe, but now I know there’s a market for it ….

]]> Comment on Are you stuck? by Mark Fojas http://leili.org/blog/2011/08/05/are-you-stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-79307 Mark Fojas Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:48:23 +0000 http://leili.org/blog/?p=222#comment-79307 And here I have been-- too shy to even ask if you SOLD your pieces. Really, are you kowtowing to my every peculiar sensibility (Bruce Lee, WD-40, impossible situations) just to sell more pieces? I now must go back and look at all of your previous posts to see which piece I really wanted. It's back there somewhere... hopefully not stuck within another post. And here I have been– too shy to even ask if you SOLD your pieces. Really, are you kowtowing to my every peculiar sensibility (Bruce Lee, WD-40, impossible situations) just to sell more pieces? I now must go back and look at all of your previous posts to see which piece I really wanted. It’s back there somewhere… hopefully not stuck within another post.

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