Henna on my Hand

 

Going through some old photos. Saw this one from a trip to Morocco. Marrakesh here, my hand having henna applied. The closest to a tattoo for me. :) 

Barn Contents

Barn by the trail by the water...looked a bit beat up, but they had taken care to close it up. Except for the space between the padlocked door where a hand could fit with a phone....and image what was in that dark barn. All neat and tidy. 

Beautiful walk as well...on marsh connected to bay, hills in the distance all in view in clear sky.

Building a city -- part of it -- ceramics

In process of using a photograph I took for inspiration of a scene on a street in Mysore.  I had been there long ago, on my way to a wedding of a friend. More when I complete the project.  

Clay, hand built. 

 

Skink! Quite a blue tail

 

I planned on moving a piece of marble outside, but this skink allowed me to leave it alone. The skink had been under the marble slab as I picked it up, and "he" wasn't moving. He then moved to under the edge of the marble that I had resting on the ground. Didn't want to hurt it, so held it for a bit more until skink went away a bit, but by that time, rethought the heavy lift, and decided to wait for a friend. :) 

Production Pottery -- kind of! :)

Made these last week .. fast! For fundraising event. Nice group of people surrounding, fun times. 

 

From a documentary - ceramics and plexiglass

 

I won't put the full interpretation here, in part because I don't want to oversimplify the documentary I recently saw. Natural resources, relationships on several levels. Was an assignment about relationships....not necessarily the human kind. The clip is intentional, as the story can change with a different environment in the background. 

Building a Plexiglass Box

Very nice man at the plastic store taught me how to stick plexiglass together, and gave me his demonstration to use as a right angle. Weld-on used to melt the plastic so it sticks together. Using this as part of a sculpture, so waiting to see if I will add the final piece to make it a six sided box, or leave it as is. The Weld-on is a "drippy" liquid, so will take some practice to get no smudges, but, so far, not too bad. The picture above is sitting on a drop cloth, that isn't a smudge line at bottom! And it is the clouds and blue sky above in reflection. :)