Oct 16
Even though our bedroom is the master bedroom, and we’re not likely to change, the kids decided that our room needed to be named after a mythical creature as well. I chose the unicorn. I also noticed that you could say that each animal represents a different element, and that the unicorn would be earth. …
Oct 14
This is my largest smiley ball, and it was coil-built rather than built as two pinch-pots joined at the lip. It’s about fourteen inches in diameter. It looks slightly different now, because I painted it with iron-paint after I took this photo. The iron paint is a suspension of iron particles in an acrylic paint …
Sep 06
My kids (one in particular) decided she wanted a phoenix for her room, because her friend had drawn her a picture once and it looked very pretty. I didn’t know how to make a bird look like it was rising from the ashes, so instead I painted the one from one of my favorite folktales, …
Jun 08
This book started, once again, with light cotton cloth adhered to an old photocopy. The photocopy was of a dictionary page with the word “swift†on it–used for another project—but you can’t see it very well now. To let the image show through, I cut out twin silhouettes of flying swallows before adhering it to …
May 12
I’ve learned the that easiest book cover material is thin cotton adhered to a typing-weight paper back. So for these three books, (Remember book, Strive book and Lotus-skeleton book) I started out with three different calico-weight scraps of cloth and glued them onto misprinted pages. This piece of cloth is pink and red, and it …
