picasso pots

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sarah scampton

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Toshiko Takaezu

Toshiko Takaezu's Moon Pots

Hans Coper

'Practicing a craft with ambiguous reference to function one has to occasionally face absurdity. More than anything, like a demented piano tuner, one is trying to approximate a phantom pitch. One is apt to take refuge in principles which crumble'

-- Hans Coper

clay bodies

Vessels like these have been found across the globe dating back millenia. Clay is easily shaped and decorated, allowing people to convey information about cultural identity, society and beliefs through design.

Fired clay pots sometimes absorb traces of their contents, which scientific analysis can sometimes identify helping to tell us more about life and death through history.

For me it is the trans-formative firing process that makes ceramics unique as an art form. You make work and then give it to the fire and hope that during its metamorphis something beyond your expectations emerges. It's a natural process and I like to think of it like the body aging. No two human bodies grow the same and no two pots emerge the same.

Placing something you have labored over into a kiln, relinquishing control over its final aesthetics, takes a certain mind set, patience and a certain amount of faith.

Lucie Rie

Lucie Rie's simple shapes and beautiful necks.

Janine Antoni

“My work has always focused on the body and how it exists in the world; how it makes meaning. It’s an exploration of what it means to be female; it’s important to claim that."

"Our bodies physically store our memories. We are the history of our lives, so to be in touch with one’s body is to have access to those memories.”

“We treat our bodies as a vehicle to transport our thinking minds. I’ve been on a journey to embodiment. I want to enter my body, to trust it. I want to make sculptures that talked about that experience. Making this work has been a way to externalize a bodily understanding. Making has been a form of healing.”

All works and quotes from Janine Antoni

Kintsugi

Kintsukuroi.
(n.) (v.phr.) "to repair with gold"

I like Kintsugi's simple lesson, that it's possible to start over.

Esther Derkx

I don’t know about you, but a speedo-clad man doing leg lifts and tree pose on my dessert plate is exactly what i need. Cake anyone? Dutch artist Esther Derkx’s screen printed dancers and athletes are such a funny way to breathe new life into abandoned, mismatched crockery. I love them!

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