I have been trying to upload this for months. The hands are studio-mates Dan and Drew. Their hands and their talking make the performance even more poetic for me.
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Images of a ceramic sculpture residency
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I love your respect for the physical here and now - you observe and
record without sentimentality.
-Rima Schulkind
My Dad could throw tops with a string wrapped around them...so he could stand in the middle of a room and throw to all four corners..or get them going all over the room..it was pretty cool...that was what I thought of when I saw this..but he made his if wood..stone or porcelain makes them more elegant...like little dancers
-Tricia
Hi Erin, from Barb & Doug. These are great! A hint for Dan and Drew... the tops spin better if you aren't touching the table when you start. Hold slightly off the table, twist them and let go.
I am completely mesmerized by the movements and the sound! I love it when they're all going at once, as though they are on stage performing.
Thanks Erin!
Do you know the piece called A Morir by Miguel Angel Rios?
its in the hirshhorns permanent collection, was on view for a while maybe a year ago? i completely love it.
but your tops, being fabricated by hands and then spun by hands, with the comments made about which ones are favorites, and with some spinning less vertically or even less successfully--well those last sort of have their own individual personas---- All this makes your piece stand apart from his, on its own, despite the obvious similarities. theres something really interesting about their individualities, the handmade, and the choice to use clay... if yours is a comment on his, how even more interesting.
i had thought his piece so interesting in it relationship to the human condition, but perhaps yours says more about it, in actuality.
in light of all this, i vote for no top-spinning device... but then i cant wait to see it if you invent one!!
what amazing work youre doing there. i dont read your blog because i never remember to check it and my attempt to sign up never did get me on the mailing list. but i just read a bunch when you sent out this original mail.
wow.
you make a good case for wanting to do a residency at cub creek. how lucky those boys are to be exposed to you.
much love,
jj
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