I began with more of the same that I had been doing in the first larger bowl then changed it up a bit with the smaller one. This one I allowed myself to bring the design from the outside to the inside and through. I have not done this again but will certainly revisit this concept. Outside, inside and through. I will likely do some of this work during the summer while on campus because the only way to decipher it is to have a clear head. It’s a really fun puzzle. 

Another fun puzzle was this green and yellow serving dish and the organic line that didn’t seem to belong at first. I was stuck. I asked everyone for an assist. In the end I used what I have learned with the dodecahedrons which have now turned into fluid forms. One series informed the other. An ah-ha moment. The organic was meant to be there. While the yoga I practice has its series’ and patterns, it is fluid in breath and movement. I saw this line as breath. It became the fluid. It became the movement. It became the wind. It became a branch, alive and growing.

I started looking through my visual references, photos I have collected of patterns or scenes which were deliberately saved for use in work “at some point”. A favorite image was taken on a backpacking trip in 2009 with my brother, my sister-in-law, and my kids. We hiked 7 miles that day with everything we needed on our backs. This was a piece of heaven. During the hike in to where we would eventually camp, we passed a body of water that caught the light just right. So beautiful. The illusion from the reflection of the grass in the water was mesmerizing. Finally, I found a way to use it in my work. Layers and layers in this process.

I have taken to working on several pieces at one time, all in different stages. The dish above was worked on simultaneously with the next two. The large dish is handbuilt using a form. I have another one of these under plastic, ready when I am, for it. There seemed to be a bit of a water focus happening. I do love ripples and waves. Not as much the big ones but the subtle ones on the surface of an otherwise still pond, created by a gentle wind, a bug on the surface, or some creature stirring from the depths. The bottle is going to get a gold luster accent but I’m not exactly sure where just yet. While the other two dishes are of water, this one IS water or at least some kind of liquid engulfing the form. I’m not sure if you can see it but the porcelain bottle has facets at the “naked” area as the top appears to be overlapping it from carving out that base.

The last dish is a new design I have not sorted out yet but it’s on the way. Very very complex.