I just noticed something

That this is the blog that is listed on my old business cards.

So I think I'll still check in here every once in a while.  Maybe there's someone looking for me.

I can't stand to just let someone miss me.

If they want to talk to me, I'll be here.

Barb Rogers

Goddesses I've made

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OK, since this site is so screwy on blogger, I have to post things backwards. When I created another blog later (maybe 6 months later), it was able post the pictures anywhere I'd like, and I can cut and paste text...basically do some editing. But not on this site...it has to be post the picture, write the test, then the next picture is posted above it, and so on. A real difficult way to make narrative.

So I'll not do narrative at all, just post all the goddesses, without comment. Perhaps number them as I upload them (3-4 at a time, slow slow work), just so I can come through and know which one is which.

Goddesses - Artemis, negative space?

A sangria pitcher which I enjoy a lot...not just in observing the form, but in mixing different tasting beverages!

A cornocopia represents abundance, a filling of a negative space with fruits and vegetables.

Just to give an example of an ancient goddess...here's Artemis, with a modern woman standing by to give a comparison of her size. I think of how men have breast fetishes in our culture...and whow, look at those! Somehow I don't think this would make a centerfold.

Tree goddess lantern

So glad to think that this goddess form is in a friend's home. And I've been thinking a lot about how the negative spaces in a simple form have two ways of being viewed, whether or not being lit by a candle.

I think it's time for me to have fun with the way slab work can be bent, attached, and carved. Again.

Foliage

This was sold last year, and I don't remember if it was to a friend, or just at one of the TailGate markets on Sat. morning.
That's coming up again soon. Our little co-op just met, and delegated who would be at the market which Saturdays during the summer.

Now this is my very own cauldron, which these days holds a huge purple shamrock. It is doing just fine here in the living room, with muted sunlight.

The purple foliage is such a good ground for the colors of the cauldron!

Early stages of my sculpture from a figure class last winter.

Here's the banner from Clay Club's blog.

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Clay Club
Clay Club aims to connect potters and ceramic artists of our community. We exchange ideas, share information and form friendships


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If you haven't been to that site, try it sometime. Lots of Western North Carolina pottery news. http://ncclayclub.blogspot.com/


I've sent John Britt the invitation to go out to members (???) of Clay Club for this month's meeting next week at BMCA (Black Mountain Center for the Arts, Clay Studio)



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Clay Club at Clay Studio of BMCA



All potters, clay addicts, and others (artists, students, good cooks etc) are welcome to the Pot Luck meet of the Clay Club, Wed, May 11 at the Clay Studio of The Black Mountain Center for the Arts.

Meet at 6:30 for food & demos by Annie Singletary, John Britt, and ??? (if you've got a technique to share, plese speak up).

Where is it?
The Clay Studio is located downhill and behind the Black Mountain Center for the Arts, in a small separate building.

Off I-40, go north from exit 64 towards downtown Black Mountain. At State Street (3rd traffic light) take a left. Within 2 blocks, the Center for the Arts will be on your left, (just after the Dripolator Coffee Shop and just before the Thai Basil Restaurant.) To park behind the Center for the Arts, take the next left at that traffic light (steep hill down) and the left at the first driveway into a parking area. If it is full, there's another parking area below it, as you continue down the hill.

More information available from Black Mountain Center for the Arts at (828) 669-0930, or Barbara Rogers, here.

I'm really psyched about getting some groups of potters together...what fun we may have!



4 elements vase

A bit of a bald eagle soaring through air...

Some crystals to remind us of earth...

And of course a mountain waterfall for the element of water...

Spring reminds me of my 4 elements pot...showing here the firey side...

I have to hang my humming bird feeder soon. Here's my mask of a hummer...greatly dressed up in irridescent black. Oh you know, in case you want a masked ball of hummingbirds!

The Lyre player...which isn't for sale. The simplicity of her listening ...