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II think I will always make Ascending Bowls, as long as I am turning.
The series is open-ended for me, particularly as it offers new
opportunities for rebirth, and for new developments. These
walnut Ascending Bowls, made a year apart, represent a kind of
recalibration, a type of resharpening of skills and vision. The
tool-marking (incising) plays an integral part in harmonizing with the
drum forms, which echo Japanese ceramic traditions as well as African
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The Ascending Bowl, rising, speaks about process, the idea of
being in the midst of happening rather than in a state of completion.
I like the idea of the work being in flux rather than static.
Frequently, I settle on one of these pieces to study the form and the
texture, and it appears to me to be still turning. Only after
quieting myself and coming to terms with the vessel, does it slow and
settle. This is how we are in life, it appears; we move at daily
functioning speed and everything around us appears to be in motion.
Only when we rest to gather our thoughts do the objects around us
quiet down, enabling us to see where we have been, where we are, and
where we are going. |
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