tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70158661808916644412024-03-12T19:21:29.043-07:00FetishGhost's Secret StudioDiary and notes from a secret ceramics studio.FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.comBlogger826125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-3670086093042245112021-05-07T21:42:00.001-07:002021-05-07T21:42:41.285-07:00Splitting <div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Splitting: ... is a defense mechanism where people disown parts of themselves that they feel is not acceptable, particularly behaviors fueled by their urges. They do this by saying “I’m not really those things”, “what I feel isn’t me” instead they lean into (excessive) morality and struggle to behave in manners that aren’t true to their needs or in disregard to their feelings.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">This shows up in the studio as self censorship, avoiding subject matter that others deem objectionable. Usually an assumption based on past experience. </div><div><br></div>FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-40639865721708143902019-12-08T15:02:00.000-08:002019-12-08T15:02:34.912-08:00Marcus<div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1SSf2OlRGuQakwQdmib-17AP1E8XcsLQA" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1SSf2OlRGuQakwQdmib-17AP1E8XcsLQA" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">It’s the last scheduled life drawing session for the year. The room was pretty much empty except for Andor, Jess, Amy, Marcus (our model), and myself. No complaints, I prefer the informality of familiarity that we have between everyone that was there.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1sjpDnezIC4jHJyMJb2afVXUA0-ulmrXu" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1sjpDnezIC4jHJyMJb2afVXUA0-ulmrXu" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">It was a bit of a struggle to find a place where I felt comfortable with what was landing on the paper this morning, the connection between eyes and hands were fuzzy, but looking at the last few of this morning’s drawings, the results are still satisfying. To walk in and be able to put down a figure on paper was the goal of the year and that goals beenchecked off. Next year? Work the figure into interior domestic landscapes. Here’s to 2020...</div>FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-69878786980597947932019-12-04T18:05:00.001-08:002019-12-04T20:18:27.312-08:00Uniquely Common<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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To "like" it carries so little weight as to be pretty much meaningless. On line it needs to draw eyes to even begin to have any perceived semblance of validity. Sitting on a shelf with other work in a gallery, it needs to pop out and ask to be picked. But loud isn't what I pull out of my kitchen cabinet or what I'm holding when I sit down at the end of the day. </div>
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FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-87464567805418040402019-12-04T11:00:00.000-08:002019-12-04T11:00:22.886-08:00Babble<div>Babies bable through the phonetic library of sounds as they move towards the sonic forms of what's going to be their native tongue.</div><div><br></div><br><div><div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1rVArdgN3IthMz2g9q3qL2rMrz-l2-yla" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1rVArdgN3IthMz2g9q3qL2rMrz-l2-yla" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div><br></div><div>Is it incompetence or curiosity that takes us on this course or rather the likelyhood of a mix of the two? Is there some deeper relevance to why we stop babbling?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1lk_ftzOym50rYLdZ4DlqgI12-ED6cOLq" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1lk_ftzOym50rYLdZ4DlqgI12-ED6cOLq" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">Is it because we've decided what to say or because we no longer are curious about possibly?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-77774724011665979392019-08-08T21:31:00.000-07:002019-11-03T20:17:38.637-08:00Pink WallFlower<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">When I look at this, I can feel the fleeting connection through a reciprocal gaze in my upper chest.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br></span><span style="text-align: left; font-size: 16pt;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1w2EWodhXS9CPzE-CC5zgJz0TqnGNFP5_" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1w2EWodhXS9CPzE-CC5zgJz0TqnGNFP5_" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="text-align: left; font-size: 16pt;"><br></span></p>FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-3439013183366334612019-08-08T21:26:00.000-07:002019-08-08T21:26:15.737-07:00Thread of Conversation <div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">The way you listen affects the way I speak...</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">The way I speak affects the way you listen...</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);"><br></div><div style="text-align: left; caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=12Hqi79fmXd2jJHN70MrgUx7jDxLCHhmR" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=12Hqi79fmXd2jJHN70MrgUx7jDxLCHhmR" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div>FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-73944827690525615072019-08-06T17:10:00.000-07:002019-08-06T17:10:15.885-07:00Blue blue Blue<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Unposted from 0<span style="display: inline !important; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">9/07/2016 with text added.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4jmhvuaGXn0/V9Dc_XYFN6I/AAAAAAAAF_c/pxCxWE84XFI/s640/blogger-image-1943976188.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4jmhvuaGXn0/V9Dc_XYFN6I/AAAAAAAAF_c/pxCxWE84XFI/s640/blogger-image-1943976188.jpg" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HxTcL1PyXVQ/V9dvQYBXXFI/AAAAAAAAGCA/bf8n73cm4sk/s640/blogger-image--256469329.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HxTcL1PyXVQ/V9dvQYBXXFI/AAAAAAAAGCA/bf8n73cm4sk/s640/blogger-image--256469329.jpg" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><br></div>This was a beautifully simple project that went through the studio 3 years ago (2016) done in collaboration with my partner Jessica Fong. We only made a handful of these yunomi before we moved on and now, looking around, they are all gone.</div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--a5Av0KOyHY/V9DcrHvFVsI/AAAAAAAAF_M/3eqyN-a5yc8/s640/blogger-image-712377377.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--a5Av0KOyHY/V9DcrHvFVsI/AAAAAAAAF_M/3eqyN-a5yc8/s640/blogger-image-712377377.jpg" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7gcJkuyIPd4/V9Dc7qmXQKI/AAAAAAAAF_Y/rSUU-HUUDQI/s640/blogger-image--664554544.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7gcJkuyIPd4/V9Dc7qmXQKI/AAAAAAAAF_Y/rSUU-HUUDQI/s640/blogger-image--664554544.jpg" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As usual, I’m surprised that they disappeared so fast, they had a discordant look and feel to them. Maybe that was the attraction... The unfamiliar flower is the siren call of bees.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nJ1j2-V_jHs/V9DcvV4MwEI/AAAAAAAAF_Q/hQHDOubbXn4/s640/blogger-image--1952201864.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JPvwroPdme4/V9dvVzV14FI/AAAAAAAAGCE/wAGtfZ1akD4/s640/blogger-image--1942701084.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JPvwroPdme4/V9dvVzV14FI/AAAAAAAAGCE/wAGtfZ1akD4/s640/blogger-image--1942701084.jpg" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nJ1j2-V_jHs/V9DcvV4MwEI/AAAAAAAAF_Q/hQHDOubbXn4/s640/blogger-image--1952201864.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2m3EUu_fb24/V9dlUGkS1KI/AAAAAAAAGBQ/nA7Q9N1mV0A/s640/blogger-image-1749643468.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2m3EUu_fb24/V9dlUGkS1KI/AAAAAAAAGBQ/nA7Q9N1mV0A/s640/blogger-image-1749643468.jpg" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-44-fB9LRNe4/V9dva0zGsaI/AAAAAAAAGCI/18p-3yr6Taw/s640/blogger-image--1082157651.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-44-fB9LRNe4/V9dva0zGsaI/AAAAAAAAGCI/18p-3yr6Taw/s640/blogger-image--1082157651.jpg" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2m3EUu_fb24/V9dlUGkS1KI/AAAAAAAAGBQ/nA7Q9N1mV0A/s640/blogger-image-1749643468.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fQm-XGEz1pA/V9dqrA6M7zI/AAAAAAAAGBk/Ub_8zz4ZBDE/s640/blogger-image--1193005243.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fQm-XGEz1pA/V9dqrA6M7zI/AAAAAAAAGBk/Ub_8zz4ZBDE/s640/blogger-image--1193005243.jpg" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5DsX_mG-tcA/V9dviNzEUhI/AAAAAAAAGCM/SC11yT8311s/s640/blogger-image-290813942.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5DsX_mG-tcA/V9dviNzEUhI/AAAAAAAAGCM/SC11yT8311s/s640/blogger-image-290813942.jpg" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fQm-XGEz1pA/V9dqrA6M7zI/AAAAAAAAGBk/Ub_8zz4ZBDE/s640/blogger-image--1193005243.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FuI5RL5WTDA/V9dqmAgqoMI/AAAAAAAAGBg/thpZosvnovE/s640/blogger-image-1251183727.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FuI5RL5WTDA/V9dqmAgqoMI/AAAAAAAAGBg/thpZosvnovE/s640/blogger-image-1251183727.jpg" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div></div></div></div><br></div><br></div>The nice thing about a successful project is that once it’s done, it doesn’t need to be done again. Time is better used to explore and grow, not rehash a minor victories.</div>FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-73954606505564806382019-08-04T12:06:00.000-07:002019-08-04T12:06:52.687-07:00States Become Traits<div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1DGnaBag_L8JvrF-1e_5lGAlENKm6rCev" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1DGnaBag_L8JvrF-1e_5lGAlENKm6rCev" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">With enough frequency, states such as being left alone or being abused, can become a trait which patterns the way we manage our emotions and engrains the the neuro circuitry of the brain, becoming a pattern which we unconsciously gravitate to in order to help us manage our experience in the world. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We drift to the familiar...</div><div><br></div>FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-15912415820079713432019-07-29T13:40:00.000-07:002019-07-29T13:40:18.965-07:00Week 17Week 17 July 22nd -28th<div><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=10dEkn2y2ZYAbfM4qsR7QWfBlqcwnvT7X" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=10dEkn2y2ZYAbfM4qsR7QWfBlqcwnvT7X" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div>A slow week with a few skipped days. The heat wasn’t even oppressive, but still, I managed to knock myself down by pruning roses all day as well as thinning out the trees over the walkways along the street. I have 12 healthy, mature, and unprunes Chinese Pistash that are now very much worked through as far as my pole saw can reach as well as 120 roses that are pruned and weeded. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1EnvMoxvrT3-XzZvSPA4JKylC5Y3kLorc" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1EnvMoxvrT3-XzZvSPA4JKylC5Y3kLorc" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div>Jess and I moved the small updraft gas kiln over to the Hatch Space. Once it’s up and plumbed in, we’ll start burning it and test firing it. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1QkfFcUQOJgn_KUsNfC5-9B_4Fem0jGhu" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1QkfFcUQOJgn_KUsNfC5-9B_4Fem0jGhu" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div>I keep daydreaming about color and paint. I daydream about setting up still lifes with a figure. I daydream about starting and finishing drawings and painting and all the marks in between.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=15-JVyx-0Du1Be82hFD2BOoCBX7x_bk3J" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=15-JVyx-0Du1Be82hFD2BOoCBX7x_bk3J" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div>Found a new podcast, “Art Grind”. Not sure how I missed this one. It’s a conversation podcast with 2D artists sharing their insights into a world of thought and actionthat’s, quite frankly, elements currently missing from American Acidemic Ceramics. I’m still bothered by what I’m seeing or by what I’m not seeing. 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There’s been a directional change that’s moved through our studio and I’m grabbing and oar and seeing where it can go. <div>It’s already just 3 months shy of a year since the first night of figure drawing, and looking back, it had the feeling of heading off for kindergarten all over again, I had noidea what was happening, how this was supposed to work, who anyone was, and so much to learn. Like a toddler, I knew that my curiosity could change how I experienced the world around me.<div><br><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CfiHqQJDsr4/W9ie8M4es8I/AAAAAAAAGMo/-hU5wfZJB3YWLVKPYQQByHb_UrXpCarSACHMYCw/s640/blogger-image--196702507.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CfiHqQJDsr4/W9ie8M4es8I/AAAAAAAAGMo/-hU5wfZJB3YWLVKPYQQByHb_UrXpCarSACHMYCw/s640/blogger-image--196702507.jpg" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><br><div>It was an experience that I’ve secretly wanted to participate in for decades and didn’t know how to ask or who to ask. It's a bit tricky when there’s no one to ask though. We had no local drawing sessions open to the public. Everything that’s avalible is organized behind academic walls. So partnering up with Jess, we helped push to start our own group at the neighborhood Art League. A small group of us meet 3 times a month for 3 hour sessions at a time with a model. </div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VKmNQPuHxXw/W9ie_cGTawI/AAAAAAAAGMs/UqB_amvp0XUC82N8VOwzQR4dKJ6YbeSyQCHMYCw/s640/blogger-image-514290019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VKmNQPuHxXw/W9ie_cGTawI/AAAAAAAAGMs/UqB_amvp0XUC82N8VOwzQR4dKJ6YbeSyQCHMYCw/s640/blogger-image-514290019.jpg" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><br></div><div>My original goals were to become competent and confident enough to sit down oncommand and be able to skillfully draw a convincing portrait. Admittedly, I’m not quite there yet... but like the first year of kindergarten, I can see a host of changes in my world that lay behind the drawings on the pages. I can truthfully say that I am more confident. If someone asked me to sit down and draw them, I definitely would. Would it be good? Mmmmm, I don’t know, but I’d do it. I’ve made lots of new friends, and now I’m setting up new opportunities for group sessions as an advocate and organizer.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1Eb3B0JrpHPWLBZ57zcqoYl7Red0f_mBW" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1Eb3B0JrpHPWLBZ57zcqoYl7Red0f_mBW" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><br></div><div>So the first two pictures are from the first session, the last is from one of the most recent sessions. All three are of the lovely Miss Brie. Without her collaboration, none of this would have ever gotten off the ground. <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;">So this post is pretty much a heads up. From here on out, there’s going to be a lot more talk about media other than just ceramics. 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Thanks Jess :)</span></div></div></div></div>FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-16807767340867944072018-05-29T20:01:00.000-07:002019-11-03T20:19:42.306-08:00Compass Rose<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">Here's a little toss up to the Blog Spirits, there's dozens of orphaned posts that, instead of pressing "fuck it" (otherwise popularly known as publish), they just got forgotten in the pile up of unfinished drafts. This one was from the fall of 2016 when Jess and I spent two weekends up in the hills north of Napa Valley at Scott Paredy's Cobb Mountain kiln shed. Seems like it just happened. Rather than edit this, I'm just pressing the button and gonn'a let it ride. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22px;">Personal craft is a means to make internal sense of this big experience. A means to tell myself stories through suggestive iconography rather than through mimetic prose. A mean to sooth myself with rhythm, color, and texture. Something more akin to Art. It's not meant to be an economic engine. It's not meant to chase my problems away with dogma, it's a way to make my problems beautiful through poetry.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 22px;">This year will be my 2nd time, the difference this go-round is that Jessica Fong and I are exhibiting our collaborative work together under the FetishGhost banner. I'm pretty excited! It's proving to be an impressive lineup and just to be an asterisks in the exhibition notes is all its going to take to make me smile. </span>
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FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-28133897195242521442016-09-25T21:15:00.001-07:002016-09-25T21:16:45.459-07:00Cut FlowersMore greenware heading to kiln at The Art and Ecology Project. <div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Lq5_gtU9sWs/V-ig9u9OfMI/AAAAAAAAGFA/xpYLAd7Nz-g/s640/blogger-image--583564495.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Lq5_gtU9sWs/V-ig9u9OfMI/AAAAAAAAGFA/xpYLAd7Nz-g/s640/blogger-image--583564495.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Really enjoy both. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The first is dynamic and busy. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The second has a nice Matisse blue cutout feel. It's comforting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xPKScr-2Q7A/V-ig564SolI/AAAAAAAAGE8/mUtSMHMZ3bA/s640/blogger-image-699226233.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xPKScr-2Q7A/V-ig564SolI/AAAAAAAAGE8/mUtSMHMZ3bA/s640/blogger-image-699226233.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We'll see how the fire plays with these.</div><br></div></div>FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-10985207127071947492016-09-20T18:43:00.001-07:002016-09-21T09:08:18.803-07:00Bisqueware<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HxHvpJSlbV4/V-HlnnrJzKI/AAAAAAAAGEQ/WhSatntaSRw/s640/blogger-image-1904898243.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HxHvpJSlbV4/V-HlnnrJzKI/AAAAAAAAGEQ/WhSatntaSRw/s640/blogger-image-1904898243.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Still prepping a few small pieces for the salt kiln in October. The stained and sanded surfaces are really nice in the hand. The dark and muted surface surprisingly does it for me. It's getting tempting to keep the glaze to a minimum, just give the interior a loner and let the salt do its job.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CWFiIacGVYg/V-Hl3O4Sp8I/AAAAAAAAGEU/5ktf_0MpiLc/s640/blogger-image-974095725.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CWFiIacGVYg/V-Hl3O4Sp8I/AAAAAAAAGEU/5ktf_0MpiLc/s640/blogger-image-974095725.jpg"></a></div><br></div>FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-14681690542583455442016-09-20T16:46:00.001-07:002016-09-20T18:32:59.110-07:00Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Wc0ldSV3_FY/V-HKS9Uv9VI/AAAAAAAAGDs/SZ6HDhEjos0/s640/blogger-image--1664872510.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Wc0ldSV3_FY/V-HKS9Uv9VI/AAAAAAAAGDs/SZ6HDhEjos0/s640/blogger-image--1664872510.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o3_qn4AApAM/V-HKLIAbnNI/AAAAAAAAGDg/rkbEPptiPgc/s640/blogger-image-554672010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o3_qn4AApAM/V-HKLIAbnNI/AAAAAAAAGDg/rkbEPptiPgc/s640/blogger-image-554672010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--daOfW5G7DU/V-HKNq_LQVI/AAAAAAAAGDk/_RX81dQebzs/s640/blogger-image-16920678.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--daOfW5G7DU/V-HKNq_LQVI/AAAAAAAAGDk/_RX81dQebzs/s640/blogger-image-16920678.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I found a even dozen cups hidden in the bottom layer of a forgotten box. There's a bit of a mess surrounding the photo booth in the basement. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Out-of-site, out-of-mind and all...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o3_qn4AApAM/V-HKLIAbnNI/AAAAAAAAGDg/rkbEPptiPgc/s640/blogger-image-554672010.jpg"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I made this round as part of a batch that was intended for the 2015 Akar Yumoni Invitational and it got boxed away as soon as it came out of the kiln. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I wanted muted surfaces and I really liked what came out, but... (It's always the buts that get me though ) I didn't think they would play well with all the other work that would be posted around it in the show. I was guessing that it was going to be a strong show and I can't say that I wasn't wrong.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Wc0ldSV3_FY/V-HKS9Uv9VI/AAAAAAAAGDs/SZ6HDhEjos0/s640/blogger-image--1664872510.jpg"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But I do really like these. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They came out pretty much how I was originally hoping. It was just what I had in mind didn't fit the need at the time. Admittedly, they seem even better now that there's distance from the original expectation. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YODzSvruaCI/V-HKQF_D6cI/AAAAAAAAGDo/cJDxcurVyZM/s640/blogger-image-1388893599.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YODzSvruaCI/V-HKQF_D6cI/AAAAAAAAGDo/cJDxcurVyZM/s640/blogger-image-1388893599.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Distance always makes the heart grow fonder, (at least it's acceptance is easier).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i7OeJLADqXY/V-HjSjVzmDI/AAAAAAAAGD8/ue5e_ftPbsM/s640/blogger-image-1691340772.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i7OeJLADqXY/V-HjSjVzmDI/AAAAAAAAGD8/ue5e_ftPbsM/s640/blogger-image-1691340772.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-60946307433883682422016-09-18T14:11:00.001-07:002016-09-18T14:24:09.244-07:0050/50 Wash<div>I'm This is the go to wash in our studio. </div><div>It was brought to my attention by Jess a few years back and I huffed and puffed when I first saw her use it, but I quickly came around after playing with it, and was floored after seeing results when it's used in conjunction with the stencils, Since then, we've seen it referenced by John Britt in his glaze books. </div><div><br></div><div>(2) tablespoons gerstly borate</div>
<div>(2) tablespoons masion stain</div>
<div>(1) cup water</div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I imagine that any masion stain or oxide can be used when mixing this up.</span></div></div>
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