This covered jar/bowl is seven inches tall at the shoulders, standing on an eight-inch broad frozen sea.
Detail of its precarious footing.
Photos by me.
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This is a detail of the woven clay pattern. I think when I first made a woven pot, I had not seen this trick before. In fact, several experienced potters, teachers, have had to ask how I did it. I will show, but I will not tell.
The deep blue jar has a nicely fitting lid.
The inside of the jar and the lid are glazed in red.
photos by me, November 2014
Miss Pixie’s is a well-established house of treasures on 14th St. NW in Washington, DC. It’s impossible for me to walk through without seeing wonderful objects and furniture that bring memories or just please the eye or hand. Even lovelier are the everyday ordinary things in multitudes, giving the satisfaction of plenty.
This is a beautiful textured pitcher by the well-known potter Sandi Pierantozzi. I had to have it.
A year has passed since we were in the wonderful artsy, historic, spiritual center of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, on the verge of the explosion of living and dead humanity that is Dia de los Muertos. These sorry little pots are the result of 1) a worthless kickwheel, 2) bad untested glazes applied by brush 3) poor firing in an unknown kiln.
But I love them.
This unplugged process produced four tiny cups and 15 buckets of sweat. Electricity is a wonderful thing.
These are the right size for the proper amount of milk (one cup/225 ml) and sugar or honey to put out at one time. I like the way the red and blue glazes melt together.
Photos by me.
A blue/green pouring vessel.
It’s blue if you pour left-handed, green if right-handed. It’s sometimes a mystery, but probably has to do with which way the winds were blowing in the hot kiln.
Celadon covered jar with the the shadow of a fish.
A nine-inch blue bowl with “watershed” impression on edge.
bluebird jar lid beside upturned bottom
impression inside lidShe went ahead with the bluebird-topped pot, but really would rather see all blue. Everyone wants blue pots.
My photo of Marisa Nixon at Petworth Community Market, 12 July 2014
Watershed Clayworks 