plates and wallpaper

I'm already too excited for my upcoming workshop at Haystack this summer. I'll be taking a large-format screen printing class. in making wallpaper, I'll be able to explore the relationship between the plates and the walls behind them in a more direct way. The pictures were taken at the MFA in Boston. The Japanese Noh costumes really intrigue me for the visual information of round forms on geometric background.
For images of my past plate installations visit this link to my website.

Hispano-MORE-esque

Spain,Manises, Valencia,Dish,Late15th-early16thCen.CE(back)

Check out this beauty!
My friend Sean O'Connell is and incredible collector of historical ceramic images and recently shared his trove with me (his website click here) . While procrastinating tonight I stumbled upon this - and this is the back.

imagine the front - it may be just like this:
...and this isn't too shabby either

the blog-network

building in Tampa

I feel like I've been giving more time to facebook and less time to keeping up my digital sketchbook - as it is. Here are some pictures from some recent adventures.

So NCECA seems long ago and here at Marlboro College we have begun the round of senior shows and back-to-back kiln firings. While at NCECA, I finally got to sit face to face with a longtime virtual friend - Ben Carter (check out his great blog on his adventure in the China and elsewhere here) and we recently talked about blogging strategies. While just waiting for pictures to upload, I enjoyed reading his blog in German over google translator. Now I can finally expand my German ceramic vocabulary!

Lichtenstein at the MAD Museum, NYC

Bench in Santa Fe coffeeshop - sideways and head on
(can't you just see that in slip on a pot?)

So NCECA seems long ago and here at Marlboro College we have begun the round of senior shows and back-to-back kiln firings. I finally got to sit face to face with a longtime virtual friend - Ben Carter (check out his great blog on his adventure in the China and elsewhere here) and we recently talked about blogging strategies. While just waiting for pictures to upload, I enjoyed reading his blog in German over google translator. Now I can finally expand my German ceramic vocabulary!

Eva Zeisel - The Playful search for Beauty

AI Weiwei on youtube - TED talk

more on Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei still missing after being held by Chinese police

Artist's assistants and wife released but his whereabouts not disclosed by Beijing authorities

Ai Weiwei, photographed near his studio in Beijing on Friday. He has since been detained.

Ai Weiwei, China's best-known artist, remains missing more than a day after he was detained. Police have confiscated dozens of items from his studio.

more on this artitcle from The Guardian.uk