Oh, dear! Let us act and think, pretend, just for a moment, that ‘matter’ is constituted slightly in the vein of the standard model a particle physics. And now let’s act as if a potter — I, the potter — develops an idea for a new shape, a new form, a new foot, a new…
Author: bob
who is doing what, how?
So, as you may gather, I am still trying to figure out how to pose a question, which I find to be one of the more important questions in understanding how human beings function in daily life. I pose this question in the context of a potter’s creative act of making a pot: wedging clay…
extrusion
Nests: Creative drift As we move fall along and get ready for winter, the garden becomes more than tranquil. When we walk into it (it’s actually Ursula’s garden), there is a white-ish, pale extrusion on the left : I call it part of the creative drift of life. On the right-hand side of the garden,…
scale: material time
metamorphosis: plastic molecules? From the rocky mountains clay has flowed—time beyond imagining, and when fired in the potters’ kilns, clay re-transforms to stone. Clay is occasionally called a hydrated alumino-silicate. Calm down, this will be brief and may actually be informative. To place these words into context one could say that clay is an earth…
granite life: granite clay
In my general feeling about being a living creature, my enthusiasm and my prayed-for insights rest most deeply in the spirit of life, the aura of life, the profound mystery of life’s coming to be at all. What I take as an almost-hidden fact is that life emerged from non-life. Although my sensibilities are enveloped…
huis clos
Generally speaking, when human beings investigate something, trying to grasp what it is, or looking for evidence about its origins or nature, we accept that they are looking in a world which is more or less available to most people to look at, see and understand. We are all human we humans!Of course, by the…
protoclay: a primordial glimpse
PS. Featured imageTitle: J’ arrive, protoclay egg (granite), 16 cm, bisque fired to cone 5+, beginning cracks stained with ground iron oxide in water medium, cone 2 second firing, oxidation.
breath, water, clay: before, then, after
Water, Earth, Air, Fire: elements all In the beginning life was hidden. In the beginning life was latent. In the beginning it was possible, but not yet actual. (There was as yet, no idea of the possible: that needed living, sensing, imagining, thinking, self-conscious ‘stuff’). The waters are moving and giving energy in many forms,…
knowing: a clear quandary
intermodal hypertension
knowing/explaining: webs/nests
When we try to explain something to someone, or several things to someone, or to some people, or to give an account of this, or that or the other, we commonly trace what it is that we think we know about the stuff under discussion. Meanwhile, we also think about what the listener might need…