V – Log Week 6

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!

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