More art

"Think for a minute about what makes you fabulous and how you can celebrate it."-- Laura Mercier

This is the other fertility figure I made for ceramics class. It's a complicated piece, not easy to see in photographs. And for some reason I missed taking a shot from one other important perspective. This side, for instance,
only shows the hollow side of the female part. If the camera were behind it looking toward where the camera is now, you'd see better the mound of the pregnant belly. So, the pregnant belly of course represents life.

But lower the view slightly and you see under the belly (you can't see it well in this shot) at the ribs in the hollow, at a representation of death. That's the idea, anyway. And those things to the right of the belly are supposed to be a woman's breasts, though some have said they look like something else.
Flip the whole thing over, and here we see the male side of the figure. I had lots of fun doing this side.
If I were to do it again I would change a few things, but this is what we got. And I like it.

The fertility figures were our first assignment. I just finished the third assignment. I have pictures of 66% of the second assignment. We made 3 vessels, and two of them are finished. This evening the class will fire the third pot using the raku technique. If I have the gumption I will take some photos of the process and my finished third pot.

I have a hard time posting pictures on here. The damn things don't format the way I want them to. I want to show you my vessels, particularly the ginkgo pot. I'll do that in another post, though, hopefully soon.

So, about the quote leading this post:
"Think for a minute about what makes you fabulous and how you can celebrate it."
-- Laura Mercier
It was in my daily email quote. I suppose my art could be said to be part of what makes me fabulous. Celebration, though, is tricky. I don't like to do it. Perhaps showing you this piece of art is a way to celebrate.

So there you have it.