SAME, SAME

BUT DIFFERENT

AUTUMN COLORS

SAN JUAN AVENUE

UNTITLED

A happy Thanksgiving to you all.

ELEMENTS

It is really fall now and I enjoy the long evenings painting - and watching movies!

ANAK KRAKATAU

THE MARKS OF DUSK

This is for the cover of a book about game playing. It actually spells out THE MARKS OF DUSK with runes.

EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

MANDALA

RIO

I have to share with you these pictures of Rio, the most photographed child in Santa Cruz - maybe the world.

MANDALA IN FIVE

DUNUN VILLAGE FALL 09

CONFIGURATIONS

I HAD FUN WITH THIS

Click to enlarge!

DIVINE INTERVENTION

For a moment I thought the Credit Union has been reborn Jesus freak, but then I remembered the teller's name tag!

EXPERIMENT

A PEEP

COOL PANTS

GEROCA

Surfing the net I found this artist that I find pretty amazing. Click here to see more.

And in the beginning there was nothing. And God said 'Let there be light.'
And there was still nothing, but now you could SEE it!

(Anonymous)

THE FINAL F

Now I have a design that I'm satisfied with but to print it is another story. I have looked into screen-printing but I don't know if I have the facilities to do it here myself and printing in a shop is a major investment. This means: wait and see!

Yesterday I played bocce-ball for hours at the Leo party in the park. When I have fun with the boys I don't stop till I'm completely exhausted and today I've been laying low all day. I baked bread in the morning and tried out the bike after its repair. The back axle broke day before yesterday when I was downtown, so, the bike finally got the overhaul it has needed for a while.

All afternoon I was reading. I have just found a new author that I like: William Maxwell, and I got the first volume of his collected works, 997 pages, from the library.

QUOTE

There is no conflict between mysticism and science, but there is a conflict between the science of 2000BC and the science of 2000AD and that’s the mess in our religions; we’ve got stuck with an image of the universe that is about as simple and childish as you can imagine…it’s of no use to us.
We have to have poets, we have to have seers, who will render to us the experience of the transcendence through the world in which we are living.

(Joseph Campbell)

So here is a more simple design. This is the calligraphy that I use, inspired by the big rune stone in Jelling in Denmark.
I would like that better on a t-shirt - what do you think?

F

Of all the runes I love FEHU the best and I'm thinking of making a t-shirt. This is my first attempt at a design, but I might make it more simple without spelling FEHU out in runes.
Please give me feedback with your vote!

MANDALA

I don't remember if I ever posted this before.

RIP JOHN BROWN

John Brown, the teacher in whose studio I have been working, first in January and now the last five weeks, died of a heart attack last night.
Yesterday he was emptying the kiln with us all helping to carry the pieces to the shelves - today he is gone. It is hard to believe.
John's studio is a vital part of the lives of many people and he was keeping everything smoothly moving.
He will be missed and remembered.

THE FORM OF THE FORMLESS

Another quote from The Book of the Way and Virtue:

It is not clear above;
it is not dark below;
unceasing, unnamable,
it rturns again to nothing.
It is the form of the formless,
the image of nothing.
It is said to be disturbing and distracting.
Meeting it you will not see its head;
following it you will not see its rear.

LAST WEEK

On the fourth of July I took a hike with Jun and Yukari and Jun's old school-friend who didn't look his age.
We got lost and the hike was so long that it completely tired me out so I couldn't do anything much the rest of the day.

On the fifh I went to Wasemo's 18 years birthday. I have known him since he was in his mother's belly. Now he is a big guy.

Written in runes this is a poem by Virginia Hamilton Adair called 'God to the Serpent'. God praises the snake as his masterpiece and derides the humans for their vanity thinking that they are created in God's image.
I love the last line to the snake: "I'm glad you stayed in Eden when they left."



These two are from the first batch this time at Clay Creation. It came out of the kiln yesterday and was mostly disappointing with exception of these.

SCROLL

Here is the finished scroll - click to enlarge!

SNAKE OF RUNES

Mario gave me a scroll that he bought in Japan. It is made of rice paper and is 0ne foot wide and exactly as long as I am tall: 5'7". I have had it for a while, not knowing what to make of it, but now it turns out to be an excellent vehicle for my rune mania. I have filled a little more than half of it with excerpts from Dao De Jing. I make borders in between the different parts and I can also use these to decorate my ceramic bowls. I'll take pictures but for now you'll have to make do with this one:

A STEP FURTHER

FINALS

Here is the flounder I told you about:


and the bowl made on my birthday and inscribed with runes:


the raku piece:


and the pre-Colombian chicken tripod: