Some new small sculptures

[cheesepaws]

Originally Posted by Duck

looks like a boat anchor

Yes - that's one reason I chose it. Weight. Glad that comes through.

[Duck]

Originally Posted by cheesepaws

Weight. Glad that comes through.

geez cheese, how could it not come across as weighty…it looks like an ANCHOR!!!.

[cheesepaws]

So I've been dominating the Image Gallery section since mid- September! Ain't nobody gonna knock me from my perch?

[rika]

Cheese, thank you for your always enjoyable background info. I love "Juiced", funny but serious as well as something relevant through its contemporary connection to the archaic traditions. Reinterpretation of ever present themes in new and inventive ways is never getting old.

Originally Posted by cheesepaws

This sculpture happens to reference the vessel but isn't one itself. Here the utilitarian object we recognize as a vessel is solid ....perpetually "filled." Like other metaphorical vessels - our minds...our souls...this object embraces the hubris of fulfillment. Untippable. Unspillable. Yet, presumably, able to be bottled. Sold. An elixir? Potion? Or some other spirit held within? More self love at work here. Vessel and content melded in eternal embrace.

Or something like that....

Surely that helps it leave the "formal side" of ceramics. No?

I love the alterations you made on this piece, but in the light of what you wrote above, I don't see how the paint job on "Vessel" contributes to the concept, as it seems it has no other function then pure decorative? I think it is a great paint job, very sensuous but wonder if it was necessary at all...

[cheesepaws]

Originally Posted by rika

I love the alterations you made on this piece, but in the light of what you wrote above, I don't see how the paint job on "Vessel" contributes to the concept, as it seems it has no other function then pure decorative? I think it is a great paint job, very sensuous but wonder if it was necessary at all...

Good point Rika. Probably one reason I am still sitting on it.

[raspero]

After reading Rika's comment I went back and looked at the piece. I visualized it without the design and the form is wonderful.

Richard

[cooljamesx1]

Great work! Very funny which is very in right now! but well executed as well.