Drawings of Degree Show Pots

Black Pot

Rainbow Pot

Communal Ash Bowl

Israel Vase

Nothing Dish

Moral Vase

Compassion Pot (Funnel)

Tea With Friends ("Love pot")

Contemplative Sphere

Bibliography

1

Arts and Crafts of Morocco

James F. Jereb

Thames and Hudson

1995

“After the fall of Granada in 1492, as the Spanish inquisition carried out its self-appointed task of wiping out the philosophy and culture that had reigned for seven hundred years in Moorish Spain, many of these people fled the country and found refuge in Morocco, where their artistic traditions had long been adopted and perpetuated.

Un like other parts of the world, where indigenous, or at least the earliest-known, traditions have long since disappeared, Morocco’s arts and crafts have kept their identity for thousands of years and retain it to this day.”

Page 8

“The belief in animism (that all animals and objects are animated by a spirit) has been curtail in the development of the artistic traditions of Morocco, not only in the sense that the objects produced, including the ceremonial arts, serve as a source of magic, power and protection from evil forces, but also because they are intrinsic to daily life.”

Page 13

Also looked over “Ceramics” pages 113-135 and “Ceremonies and the Celebration of Life and Death” Pages 137-151

~ Simplicity of spiritual visualizations ~ practical use ~ stories told through one object, like a map or over view but also detailed and rigorously simplistic, however, together make complex~

2

French For Beginners

Angela Wilkes & John Shackell,

Usborne

~ Trying to learn another language because every time I would go traveling I would not be able to communicate so easily. French is a language I started to learn in school, so to keep it ‘alive’ I wanted to practice.

3

I AM Ozzy

Ozzy Osbourne

Sphere

2009

“ ‘Oh my,’ he said. ‘I think I’m feeling a little–‘

BOOM!

‘Fuck! Vicar down!’ I shouted, Rushing over to see if he was still breathing. Then I turned to look at Thelma. ‘What the fuck were you thinking?’ I said. ‘He’s gonna die! I told you not to touch that cake. He’s just eaten enough Afghan hash to knock out a bleedin’ elephant!’

~ This is my favorite novel. A story of success from a crazy person. People love him for bing crazy, and the stories he tells made me laugh out loud all the way through the book. To choose this quote I literally open the book at the first page and read the first thing I saw.

4

The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty

Sōetsu Yanagi

Kodansha International LTD.

1972

“The term “grotesque”, which has an important  - rather, a solemn  - significance in aesthetic history, has unfortunately been miss used and debased in modern times. All true art has, somewhere, an element of the grotesque. […] The profound truth in this emphasis is that freedom always resolves into irregularity in the end. “free” beauty of necessity boils down to irregular beauty.”

Page 119

“Also, the porcelain tea-bowls made in Ming China to the order of Japanese Tea Masters, of which many still survive, often show a deliberate irregularity that is essentially foreign to china. Such pieces are the result of conscious demand from the Japanese side and, as such, occupy a rather special place in the history of ceramics. My observation in America makes me think that most of the handmade individual craftsmen’s pots now being produced are mainly influenced in their irregularity and deformation by Japanese tea taste.”

Pages 120

“There is a tremendous difference between the nature of God as conceived by Christians and that of the Buddha as conceived by Buddhists. God is and absolute being, distinct from that finite being called man; God is a creator, man crated. It is thus a fundamental characteristic of Christian philosophy to perceive the existence of God as independent from man. Some link, consequently, is required to connect these two different entities, and this link is to be found in the person Jesus Christ. The cross symbolizes the belief that Jesus performed his difficult task at the cost of his life.

The Buddha, on the other hand, is not a creator: as is suggested by his name, he is a man who has achieved enlightenment. Every human being, according to Buddhism, may become Buddha; everyone is primordially qualified to do so. Of those who have achieved Buddhahood, Shakyamuni is the perfect example; all adherents of Buddhism, therefore, aspire to follow in his footsteps. Conceiving of no god apart from man, Buddhists instead suppose the existence of law (logos). Although the law may sometimes be referred to anthropomorphically, its character is far different from that of Christian God: the manifestation of the law is the essential property of man. Thus, by the Buddha may be understood a man in whom the law has been realized.”

Page 127

Making research "Mandala"

Bottle and Jar

24/04/2014
Letting the shapes flow, not thinking about what shape i am doing so much, practicing collaring in. The one to the right was a first attempt at trying to do a sphere but i got to this shape and liked it too much to close it. They still want to have a bit of weight trimmed off the bottom. but I'm not sure they will get there.

20 Artist Research

1. Professor Huo Boyang - Lecture - Mac Lecture Theatre - 4:30pm - 12th February 2014 
2. Frida Kahlo - "A life in Art"
3. Allan Watts - opposites
4. Louise Bourgeois - "A woman with no secrets" Cell (Eyes and Mirrors) at Tate Modern
5. herman de vreis - "earth" leafs
6. Marina Abramovic - "The artist is present"
7. Greyson Perry - "Reith Lectures 2013" - Radio 4 - 5ht November 2013
8. Blantyre Brick Factory 
9. "Nothing: From absolute zero to cosmic oblivion - amazing insights into nothingness"
10. "How to practice the Sadhana of Four-Armed Chenrezik"
11. Release, The Koestler Exhibition for Scotland - Tramway - 2nd Novermber - 15th December 2013
12. "Every day" - GOMA - Haley Tompkins, No Title, 2012, Umbrella
13. Wallace Stegner's Wilderness Letter
14. Ceramic Review: Issue 258 "Landscape" - Adam Buick "Earth to Earth" + Sabastian Blackie "Clay Carpet"
15. John Cage and Merce Cunningham's Interview - Walker Art Centre - Chance Conversations - 1981 Minnesota 
16. Keiji Haino - Arika - Episode 2 : A special form of darkness - Sunday 26th February 
17. Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides - DVD 
18. Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Buddhist Centre
19. The Mountains of Tibet: A child's journey through living and dying - Mordicai Gerstein
20. Planet Earth as you've never seen it before David Attenborough 

Professor Huo Boyang - Lecture - Mac Lecture Theatre - 4:30pm - 12th February 2014 

Frida Kahlo - "A life in Art"

Allan Watts - opposites

Louise Bourgeois - "A woman with no secrets" Cell (Eyes and Mirrors) at Tate Modern

herman de vreis - "earth" leafs

Marina Abramovic - "The artist is present"

Greyson Perry - "Reith Lectures 2013" - Radio 4 - 5ht November 2013

Blantyre Brick Factory 

"Nothing: From absolute zero to cosmic oblivion - amazing insights into nothingness"

"How to practice the Sadhana of Four-Armed Chenrezik"

"Release", The Koestler Exhibition for Scotland - Tramway - 2nd Novermber - 15th December 2013

"Every day" - GOMA - Haley Tompkins, No Title, 2012, Umbrella

Wallace Stagner's Wilderness Letter

eramic Review: Issue 258 "Landscape" - Adam Buick "Earth to Earth" + Sabastian Blackie "Clay Carpet"

John Cage and Merce Cunningham's Interview - Walker Art Centre - Chance Conversations - 1981 Minnesota 

Keiji Haino - Arika - Episode 2 : A special form of darkness - Sunday 26th February 

Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides - DVD 

Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Buddhist Centre

The Mountains of Tibet: A child's journey through living and dying - Mordicai Gerstein

Planet Earth as you've never seen it before - David Attenborough

Fail Pots

Dealbhan Creadha (Clay Drawing) Monday 7th April

Clemency Bathurst and Sula Grigg 

Drawing 

Clay Sculpture 

Performance