Spring colors

sgraffito carving on white stoneware

these are all relatively large bowls and plates, this one is about 30cm diameter.

sgraffito, 38cm

this is the one i like best, its colors are amazingly emerge from one to the other in beautiful range of hues.

I am really happy with the results of this kiln.

It was such a pleasure to open the kiln and find all these pots shining out like gems

(not forgetting the way they were decorated with one broken finger)

they're all made of light brown clay,  decorated with colored slip, and were cut in sgraffito style.

These days, a new series of large bowls is getting its decoration, with new variations of 3 different 

rainbow like hues, sgraffito as well.

Do we really need 5 fingers?

work must goes on

trying to work with broken right finger

Bowls, Jars, and other Containers

 

I am in the mood of making Jars,

Jar = Container

What is a container?

A containment metaphor is an ontological metaphor in which some concept is represented as:

          having an inside and outside, 

 and

capable of holding something else.

cONTAINER IS AN ONTOLOGICAL METAPHOR

"Ontological Metaphors are metaphors that give shape to abstract concepts and even contribute to the structure of Primary Metaphors.  CONTAINER is one of those metaphors."

quoted from: http://sportlinguist.com/2010/12/21/container-is-an-ontological-metaphor/

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAContainerMetaphor.html

 next: the Tagine

No many fossills were left

There are no many left from the new series "Fossils", only photos as a memoire.