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When they are not tea bowls, they are usually closed, and very often tall and
very valuable, and they often end up in major museums. The "Star Series", is at
the Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI. Their forms feel natural and their surfaces
"feel" undecorated--integrated and whole. Sometimes their carefully undulating
shape allows them to be called "The Three Graces".
The small closed forms are often partially glazed in a unique and brilliant blue.
The surfaces of the large forms in particular, need the hand or paddle to ensure
the maintenance of the desired shape. That mindful attention to the external
form, also gives the ceramic artist the personal link to the inside space that is
required to complete the concrete aesthetic vision.
The earthy tones of the wood fired forms show us their natural sources very
directly, and the large Moon Balls decorate the earth, whether on the ground or
swinging in hammocks between trees.
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