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		<title>Are you stuck?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I needed to ship an order overseas. I went to my storage shelves to retrieve the ceramic piece in question &#8211; a little verdigris green bowl with sliptrailed decoration &#8211; and was dismayed to discover that I had inadvertently stacked it inside another bowl. It was stuck. I mean, completely wedged in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2011/08/05/are-you-stuck/</link>
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		<title>Listening to Waves &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The heart-wrending photo I posted yesterday of an Alabaman wave polluted by the Gulf oil spill prompted me to share some work by artists who evidently love nature, and whose work, I find, deepens my own love for nature and beauty. Sakiyama Takayuchi is a Japanese ceramic artist who makes clay look like water and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2010/07/07/listening-to-waves-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Listening to Waves &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first saw this photograph (by David Martin of the AP) in June: spilt oil forms a delicate pattern in waves hurtling toward the Alabama coastline: I have seen a number of photographs, all terrifying, of oil-covered pelicans and brown waterscapes in the Gulf region. More than others, however, this photo spoke volumes for me. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2010/07/06/like-delicate-blown-glass-only-poisonous-and-devastating/</link>
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		<title>Nothing Has a Final Shape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2010/03/04/nothing-has-a-final-shape/</link>
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		<title>Intention and Submission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Cardew, an English studio potter born in 1910, wrote, &#8220;Pottery is a fundamental craft and should be pursued in a fundamental way. Beware of all &#8216;short cuts&#8217;. 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2009/10/22/intention-and-submission/</link>
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		<title>Fun Fiascoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; short. Others are enigmatic and full of surprises. Sometimes the unfiltered people and the inscrutable people change guises. Sometimes it is apparent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2009/06/09/fun-fiascoes/</link>
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		<title>Miami Artist, Jen Stark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My ceramics colleague, Robert Boyer, shares my fascination with obsessive, repetitive patterns and textures. So I wasn&#8217;t surprised that he drew my attention to Jen Stark, the Miami-based paper/color/X-acto artist: In a video on her site, Stark discusses how she got started making obsessive paper sculptures. She went to Paris for a year-long art fellowship, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2009/03/13/miami-artist-jen-stark/</link>
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		<title>Aref-Adib&#8217;s Look Alikes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like people who see things others don&#8217;t. This guy collects on his blog images of people and objects that, well, look alike.  It&#8217;s not just the &#8220;Separated at Birth&#8221; concept, however. Aref-Adib has collected some unusual pairs, like this one (Banksy/calligraphy): Here&#8217;s a Mondrian/&#8221;Mind the gap&#8221; juxtaposition that I like a lot: There&#8217;s also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2009/03/05/aref-adibs-look-alikes/</link>
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		<title>Putting Shame in Your Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2007/07/29/putting-shame-in-your-game/</link>
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		<title>no matter where you go, there you are</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think a lot about the concept of placeness, and what differentiates one location on the planet from another, beyond what you can see. Isn&#8217;t it interesting that in certain places you can sense stories humming in undertones? And that the spaces in which we move, physically, effect our activities and emotions and aspirations in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2007/03/28/no-matter-where-you-go-there-you-are/</link>
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