Wild and Weird
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This piece is a tour-de-farce of the potter’s art of tea. I made three teapots and put them together.
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Viking because of the horned lids. I guess. I mean, they just look like explorers, pushing back the borders, looking for new ways to brew tea.
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A tall piece, somewhat pagan in aspect. Homage to Aries? The ram, a powerful animal. Just did it because it fit together nicely. A reliquary? Possibly.
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Champions of the holy who helped protect their flock from the really evil demons? Just wild and weird carvings by medieval stonemasons to augment cathedral rooftop plumbing?
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These were just spontaneously deranged animal heads around the pouring spout of a handled vessel, and the pieces got their titles after they were finished.
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Having ten goats here at Lost Mountain is beginning to influence my sculptural work. Makes sense, since ideas come from observations.
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The Northwest is well-known for its Salmon, the brave fish that swims upstream against all odds, to spawn and die. This platter shows some old warriors grouping together, perhaps waiting for their final migration.
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Again, it’s fish. This time, two intertwined, species nonspecific but clearly swimmers. More Zodiac? Pisces? Or a nautical Gemini? Perhaps. A Celtic circle, Chinese yin and yang? It all figures in.
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Mark Heimann
Lost Mountain Clayworks
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