Notes

 BALZAC to appear @ AZ Clay Annual Exhibition 29 March at Shemer Art Center. This Balzac is in his younger day. He later became Rodin’s crag of corpulence in age and La Comédie Humaine. Diurnal Balzac wore his “willful nature,” on his back, but had not that smirk when Rodin sculpted him. I met the marbles at the Rodin Museum outside Paris where I sketched days in succession before being expelled for sketching Orpheus.

 Gazundite - When the Body Touched Elisha's Bones

Don't know the name yet. Loaded a fan brush w cobalt wash and blew over edges of the gown. This will show in bisque and final fire. Then easy to clear glaze.

 An Aleutian Pegasusian. First in a series of flying horses I imagine circling the city of Troy.

 Faint image above the altar, side door basement of the Lady Chapel, Glastonbury Cathedral. Another time zone. The Tor, IRA, Glastonbury. Blessing and danger.

Pegasus, Fox:  David said it was an astronaut. He could see the helmet and the capsule! Mom said it was a horse. I had no idea. It won't photograph because the wings, winds (?) extend around the sides and back of the vessel; there is also a foot back there. When it fires the cobalt traces blue. Sometime maybe a better pic.

Egyptian zodiac:  You may say to the elders of Egypt,
that's what the life of a father's about,
act on foresight with face singed
if the top is exploded and the bottom goes out.
If the head at the top and the people at bottom
are both lost to exposing,
It leaves us worse off than we thought,
walls still standing but the vessel won't hold,
Do not turn up the fire too high we're told,
Foresight get out of the way!

Sometimes too hot, sometimes not believed,
self doubt is the last thing it needs.
With all the crowds going it's easy to doubt,
The prophets seem sure, but not sure enough.
Go back to protect family. Require foresight to act,
Constellations on all sides of this vessel come out
and the worm Ouroboros eats itself,
What new top and bottom to historic walls?
Forces are opposed, and like tyrannies.

Death, creation continue. Top and bottom create.
This is a reading of fate.

 Pile of Bowls. These bowls are transparent held to the light. He wants a permeable membrane between the clay and light.In his last years Cezanne was so blind his landscapes abstracted until they were only colors.

 'A divine tortoise', said Confucius, 'can appear to prince Yüan in a dream, yet it cannot escape the net of Yü Ch'ieh. Its wisdom can yield seventy-two faultless omens, yet it cannot escape the misery of being cut to pieces. Truly wisdom has its limits; spirituality, that which it cannot reach.'In spite of the highest wisdom, there are countless snares to be avoided. If a fish has not to fear nets, there are always pelicans. Get rid of small wisdom, and great wisdom will shine upon you. Put away goodness and you will be naturally good. A child does not learn to speak because taught by professors of the art, but because it lives among people who can themselves speak.'

 

 Stormy, later in the day. Andrew took this out the window on return from a tournament in New Mexico in '08. An incredible piece of luck.