tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41013386495268217492024-02-02T08:33:45.080-08:00clay & perimmonsCharlene Doiron Reinharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06645689953689581574noreply@blogger.comBlogger315125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4101338649526821749.post-45211653482023026272020-02-28T18:08:00.000-08:002020-02-28T18:08:05.252-08:00The Uncertainty of Clay<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wasn't particularly fond of this piece at first. There she was waiting, full of her own personality. Her own wants. Her own needs. Totally annoying me. Questioning. She is part of a series, <i>Elemental</i>. She represents Wind. Autumnal winds. </div>
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The wait, the grief, the mourning and now a stillness. </div>
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This will be the first Mother's Day without my ochaa-san.</div>
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She gave me so, so much.</div>
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No matter what I made she thought it was beautiful.</div>
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She bragged about me to everyone. (I must admit it embarrassed me at times.)</div>
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To me, I was only a <i>good</i> daughter who needed to take her shopping at the Japanese market in San Francisco.</div>
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That my nori-maki rolling skill was not bad. </div>
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She told me to wake up to joy no matter what happened the day before.</div>
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You only get 5 minutes to feel sorry for yourself while you brush your teeth.</div>
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It took a while for me to get back into the studio.</div>
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First a leaf</div>
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then a eucalyptus pod</div>
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on and on it went, my hands taking over</div>
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cover the small makings of the day</div>
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This particular piece came out just as I wanted it, until...It didn't. Oddness is where many of my pieces end up. Some are stressed with beauty, others humorous and too endearing. They sit on the shelf waiting for identity, for want and need of insight and completion. This piece did not use up any contemplation on my part. It just became who it is, what it is. Some will find it misinformed, even a bit deformed with its heavy, wide brow and counterbalanced with elephantine ears. </div>
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Somehow
I could not change what its face is now, marked and pitted, absurdity
and harmony all rolled up in a smile. That is how I look when at one
moment I pause to think if I need to do one more thing, add one more bit
of clay, would that change a piece from raw to flawed? The weight of clay does that to me. There is always that question of balance. It just needed one more thing. That little bit of clay needed a golden shine.</div>
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It cheers me on the waste in
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It cheers me in lone sunshine out of doors <br />
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Herr loves to get to the thistles before they flower. I understand the need for balance when it comes to allowing thorny plants around the yard. Yet I love the tenacity of the thistle flower. I watch the bees get drunk on its nectar. It is quite a sight. So we reached a compromise, Herr and I. One small thistle plant was allowed to grow and flower. All by itself it grew and it was sight to behold. Herr carefully cut it down just before the blossoms died. Then all the bees went somewhere else.<br />
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Today started out with sunshine and now, a few hours later, the fog with its misty ways has drifted over the trees, onto the meadow. It is hard to get any work done as it is so much easier to drift along with it. So I will pause a moment or two to soak in its beauty.</div>
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Starting off 2018 by making owls. This winter season, we had Great Horned Owls nesting in the old ravens' nest. Early, before sunrise, we could hear their hooting. Love calls. Not sure if they were successful as the nest is about 80' up and even with binoculars hard to see. </div>
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Beauty surrounds me. Seeds that sat in the dry and parched earth had their long drink and now cover the trails with a profusion of pinks, blues, reds, purples, yellow and white flowers. From tiny to large, from native to escapees, invasive or not, the coastal hills are verdant green with willful grasses and tenacious flowers. It is hard to do any clay work. My eyes just want to take it all in and keep it in my heart, this truth before me. <br />
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The first three photos are wall hangings---wheel-thrown bases and then free-handed painting using terra sigillata and clay ink. Inspired by the enchanting forget-me-nots that are everywhere here, I decided to do these quickly and simply. Forget-me-nots are not native, but rascally run-aways and considered only mildly invasive. Their hairy seeds catch rides on anything that brushes against them and travel to new locations. Once they settle in it takes two years before they bloom. They like dapple sunlight found in the redwood forest here, mixed in with the ferns and wild geraniums they make the trails look as if tended by a master gardener.<br />
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It took only 30 days from open house to final closing and handing over the keys. The house even went through a short bidding war. The buyers were so happy and eager to move in. We donated some furniture to the botanical gardens pack rat sale and my first Skutt 818 kiln to a newbie potter. I then wrapped up my vegetable container garden consisting of one "Better Boy" tomato plant and headed north. We made it safely here, my kilns, my pottery wheel and ceramics. My buddy "Better" now sits out on the picnic table next to my temporary outdoor studio.<br />
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Building the indoor studio got delayed because the one acre lot next to us came up for sale and we bought it. My thoughts ran into building a tiny home-studio on wheels (no property tax increase.) Then I realized I really need a proper studio with a solid floor and a sink. A small wood stove in the corner for those 300 days per year of cool mornings. The south wall...a garage door with glass so I can roll it up on sunny days or more likely, foggy days. When it's down the natural light will stream in.<br />
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<br />Charlene Doiron Reinharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06645689953689581574noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4101338649526821749.post-74029815712780345752016-05-26T18:34:00.000-07:002016-05-27T06:56:13.417-07:00Walk in Wild Beauty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My studio is all packed up and heading north. So far, this unpredictable
year of the Monkey, has had some crazy days, weeks and months. It is
hard to keep a house in order, work on work and keep calm. Things (you
know, those this 'n that things) kept popping up making confetti of my need
to-do lists. It is surprising how much one can do without little
sleep. Maybe not perfect, maybe not on the mark, but done. We are
selling and moving finally. This house looks so brand spanking new and clean it makes my eyes water. I mean, shine. </span><br />
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lilac I planted 15 years ago finally bloomed. It never bloomed in all
those years. I never had the heart to take it out. Every year its leaves would unfurl with dark green perfection. It
made the nearby butterfly bush's leaves looked very shabby. In all honesty, the leaves were prone to curl and shed. Leaving bare twigs and branches. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Looking very unattractive. That said, this butterfly </span>bush without
shame and hesitance, shot out huge majestic purple blooms every year. I could not bear to uproot that tattered butterfly bush, not
because of its magnificent blooms, but because it reminded me that beauty waits...</span><br />
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lilac the year a family member took her life. And this year, on the
anniversary of her death, I dreamed of her. We
walked down to the beach and she wanted to drink the sea water. I knew
she was here for her mother. I woke and felt uneasy. Later we got an
early morning phone call and knew. Two days later I noticed the lilac
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copper band stamped: caritas abundat in omnia<br />
translation: love abounds in all<br />
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“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to
people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be
carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair
has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your
joints and very shabby.<br />But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand...”
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Spent two weeks gardening, spring cleaning and watching grandchildren at the beach. We did some tide-pooling and drawings of mermaids, whales and anemones. We also hiked the fern canyon, took photos of wild flowers. Evening entertainment was looking for the Big Dipper, Milky Way and Orion. We watched the ravens tidy up their huge nest in a 90' high Bishop pine. And on the beach, carefully skirted around the messy plover's nest. The jack rabbits were plentiful and some wild turkeys passionately showed off their beautiful tails to seemingly uninterested she-turkeys. In the early mornings, I longed to get back to doing my work, but knew these moments away fed my heart, too. Charlene Doiron Reinharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06645689953689581574noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4101338649526821749.post-81314304755703747502016-03-24T10:55:00.000-07:002016-03-24T10:55:00.460-07:00All the possibilities of clay and metal<div style="text-align: center;">
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Last two weeks I spent in a battle---me vs flu. It wasn't pretty. I really wanted to get 2 more sculptures completed, but working in clay was not possible. While I was coughing up half a lung (or at least it felt that way) I did some sketches and cut out paper dolls (Matisse channeling, I guess.) It reawaken an interest in doing some collages and paintings in the near future. <br />
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<i>When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small
sculptures and drawings pinned up on every inch of wall space. There
are coils of wire and rolls of paper tucked into shelves and drawers.
The sculptures remind me of kites, or model airplanes. I say this to
Clare one evening, standing in the doorway of her studio in my suit and
tie, home from work, about to begin making dinner, and she throws one at
me; it flies surprisingly well, and soon we are standing at opposite
ends of the hall, tossing tiny sculptures at each other, testing their
aerodynamics. The next day I come home to find that Clare has created a
flock of paper and wire birds, which are hanging from the ceiling in the
living room. A week later our bedroom windows are full of abstract blue
translucent shapes that the sun throws across the room onto the walls,
making a sky for the bird shapes Clare has painted there. It's
beautiful. <br /><br />The next evening I'm standing in the doorway of
Clare's studio, watching her finish drawing a thicket of black lines
around a little red bird. Suddenly I see Clare, in her small room,
closed in by all her stuff, and I realize that she's trying to say
something, and I know what I have to do.” </i></div>
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Like a river flows<br />
Surely to the sea<br />
Darling so it goes<br />
Some things are meant to be<br />
Take my hand,<br />
Take my whole life too<br />
For I can't help falling in love with you<br />
For I can't help falling in love with you<br />
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<i>"She walks in beauty, like the night</i><br />
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I am getting more work done (including housework and drawing.)</div>
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Started some small wall figures about 14" in length. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There are now 6 done and 6 more to finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This piece had such a look on her face I dared not even try to give her any adornments. Not a twig. Not a stone. Flowers---out of the question. Only a pink sundress and red lipstick. And that look---that sidelong glance that hints all and nothing. Verity.</span></div>
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