Rivers and Tides trip

We went to see Rivers and Tides, a documentary about nature artist Andy Goldsworthy. It's an interesting look into the life and thoughts of one of the most well known artists working today. For those not familliar, Goldsworthy makes primarily temporary installations outdoors using only natural materials and techniques. In the documentary, he builds stone piles on the beach, breaks and re-shapes icicles, weaves bits of reed and thorn into web like creations, and completes a variety of site-specific works.

The film is both visually fascinating and thought provoking. It's playing for ONE WEEK ONLY at the Tivoli. I give it two thumbs up.

this is the current state of my latest not complete project - no name bear.

Recently completed stuff (small to fit all my photos in...:()

phoebe continues to enjoy helping me with my blog - this time trying so very hard to model for me...

congrats jeremy and kim...

so i want a digital camera. not just any camera - the c-50. One of my students was talking to me, and she said "i got the BEST camera - FINALLY! and it's 5 MEGAPIXELS!" and i thought to myslef "she didn't..." and she did - she pulls out the camera i've been longing for for months....

suppose if i really want it, i should get a job...

When you spend an hour recycling clay, it starts to build up on your wrists and knuckles, and gives you this alien/elephant skin. digging the wet slip out of the buckets makes all kinds of juicy yucky farty noises, and throwing the clay around to get it all well mixed and uniform is physically demanding, loud, and theraputic.

Today i made another really big pot. I plan to make it a really big, interesting pot tomorrow by scratching up the surface then stretching out the walls. In my mind, it's very abused looking - scarred and weathered... grad schools should like it - they seen to enjoy pain.