Sunday, February 8, 2009

On the Occasion of Seeing




"Two Handbuilt Leaf Bowls in Blue or Fuschia Glazes"

Decorations for a guest room, or form in exile?


This love is to be found in high-fired tableware
Among things we frequently brush up against--
Receipts and receptacles--our infrequent combings
Into the clay, if, as we elect first to build a foundation.

This is the sprigged bowl I mention as if it has changed
Hands, as if we've conjugated again from our strong
Contrasts, of colored oxides. But first, a coffee break.
And a gift, carried out with great verve, a fired ware

That reeks of the most each has suffered by the finish,
When the mood lurches glazed leaves of sweet gum
Red maple-incised, draping, thin slabs, like your fallen skin
Hardening with no hint of the mold.



4 comments:

Σφιγξ said...

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Σφιγξ said...

Of all ceramics, I like handbuilt pieces with leaf forms or imprints...raku finish or dual-glazed, of course.

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Σφιγξ said...

The leaves are Sweet Gum, Liquidambar styraciflua..."flowing amber" and "liquid storax". The storax is deceptive, too, since it is synonymous with benzoin from the genus Styracaceae.


https://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/styrene/styreneh.htm

Σφιγξ said...

Naive question: does the chip hyperstimulate the circuits in the wet mount? Could it burn out the native machinery?

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