gypsy landscape

Another F A S T landscape.

fingerpaint landscape

I haven't posted for a while, while trying to finish up my ceramics pieces. For my final project in Concept art, I'm working on designs for my Capstone ceramic show. What I'm finding, is that whether or not anypiece on this blog looks like a complete concept, it is all going into everything I do in the ceramics studio. Very interesting.

mobile home

gypsy cottage

These are two of three from my current ceramics project. Gypsy Cottage is a bit of a conundrum for obvious reasons and Mobile Home is an interpretation of the definition.

concept synthesis

What an I trying to do with all these various parts? It seems that my concept is taking bits and pieces and assembling them like a mosaic: pieces of ideas, pieces of dreams, pieces of places and myself that have been buried. It's a bit lit an archaeological dig but I'm trying to let go of outcome and discover whatever is disclosed--I don't need to prove anything or sell myself anymore, and that is liberating. I'm happy building my dwellings, and some day, might actually inhabit them.

casa miguel

In Andalucia, the sun is hot, ripening the lemons and luscious olives. The distant sound of goats grazing on the hillside is comforting in its predictability. You have to understand the national obsession with ham to appreciate the seductive qualities of cured Iberian pork. This was graffiti on a stone wall outside of La Mancha:

Merche---
Si el amor que puse in ti,
Lo hubiese puesto en un gorrino,
Ahora estaría comiendo,
Buenas tajados de tocino.

Now that's sexy!
A plate of tapas is on the kitchen counter just waiting for the chilled pitcher of sangria and glasses to join us on the terrace. The planned escape keeps me going.

more birds