October 2008 archive

Nubian Dominoes Book

This book is hand-bound, like my others, approx 3 1/2 inches by 4 1/4 inches tall, and about 1/2 inch thick. I took a picture of the cover before I attached it to the book blank, to show what the image looked like in full.  I started with a piece of beige cotton, then layered photocopies …

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King of Pentacles

I had planned to do a whole series of these tiles, based on the tarot. I love tarot symbolism and imagery.  I spent a lot of time pounding out the clay into flat slabs, cutting it to size, and then (hardest of all) trailing stained slip freehand from a bottle.  I tried to fire them …

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Swallow collage

Here’s another collage in the series I did. When I decided that the first one needed help, I set about cutting linoblocks.  I’ve cut three so far, all of birds, and I have three others that need to be cut.  No problem collaging on the slightly rough gessoed surface, so that’s good. I’ve gotten more …

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Spodumene Flowerpot 2

Here’s another wax-resist design, this one loosely based off a design I saw on Japanese pots.