Sunday, June 28, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
"Wait...what!?"
Alternative Post Title:
How I found out I was awarded 2010 Oregon Higher
Education Art Teacher of the Year.....
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Teaching With Clay | George Fox University
For all of you who couldn't make it to George Fox last Wednesday for chapel, my 'preaching' from the wheel has been recorded as a video podcast. You can access it via iTunes:
- Click on a link for "Chapel page on iTunesU" (or click here)
- That, in turn opens up a page in iTunes with a directory.
- Find "Chapel 03-18-09"
Enjoy!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Noble Hill Anagama
George Fox University produced a great video on Anagama firing.
View it here.
Image courtesy of www.georgefox.edu.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Noble Hill Anagama | February Firing
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Artist Statment | ALCHEMY
al . che . my [al-kuh-mee] noun 2. a magical power of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.
Alchemy is about my quest for increasingly intimate and immediate relationships between the vessels I shape and the phenomenon of fire. I am captivated by the inextricably symbiotic relationship between artisan and fire, and the uncontrolled and organic beauty of forms glazed by wood ash and fire.
This body of work considers the similarity between the corporeal body and the record etched into it by the act of living, with surfaces on figural forms created entirely by organic firing cycles. I believe it speaks with apt metaphor of the communal dance between bodily experience and the marks – both visible and invisible – that remain behind as journal of our bodies’ journeys.
Along with the grace and beauty inherent in the human form, the idea of the body as a sacred vessel for the spirit, and as the vessel in which the seed of life is nurtured and born resonates with the powerful labor and childbirth imagery attendant in the cycles of primitive firing techniques I employ in my work.
With each firing I rediscover the inexplicable relationship between the artist and fire, and the corresponding magic in the uncontrolled and organic beauty of figural forms glazed by wood ash and fire.
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