May 6th
Polishing work, Meeting with Sarah, Glazing pieces – taking responsibility for my role with the relationship
3.5 hours
May 7th
Class (Susan Givertz), 2.5 hours, Reading Perloff chp 6, Plant research, Salal (stalking the wild asparagus/moore)
7 hours
May 8th
Pottery Studio/glazing, reading about rocks, boundaries of categories/language
Print (about snakes, the middle of opposites, childhood creativity, all in response to my readings today. Omniscient comes from “The Alphabet Versus the Goddess” and Solipsistic comes from “Neuro”)
Texture/Transfer/PoeticResponse
Salal Research
6 hours
May 9th
Reading Perloff – 2 hours
May 10th
Herbal class – Hawthorn Lore, Reading “Centering”, writing response, Perloff
11 hours
May 11th
Pottery/ Plant ID plaques – 3 hours
May 12th
Pottery studio, reading Neuro
5.5 hours
Total this week: 38 hours
A week of woven boundaries. I took time to be in the ceramics studio this week, to really see where it is that pottery, language, poetry, neuroscience and plants merge together. I notice boundaries within myself, boundaries of time and of stretching thin the lines of interweaving themes that I am working with. I found constant overlap, from reading Perloff, Rose and Abi-Rached and working with the text “Centering” by RIchards. They all touched on themes of fire, what does fire represent and look like from these three extremely different texts? Fire became a theme for me to work with the clay, what drives me, what ignites my fire, what ignited language representation to move from image to word? What makes me wild with fire, and what keeps me sane and yet in touch with my fire? With my ceramics tools i carve into the clay, deep words, deep and slowly rising to the top, the words sink into the clay. As the sun uses it’s fire to dry the clay I touch my knife to the clay to recognize the plants that I love, my knife as a form of applied fire.
I worked with Opening clay, making a plate to get the full sensual effect with my fingers and body by experiencing what it means to fully open clay. This was extemely sensual. I had to ease the clay open and be graceful with my movements, words that came to mind:
persistance, pressure, light, flow, ignite breath
all of these words also resonate for me when thinking about…fire!