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    so what's so special about handmade ceramics ?

    Bowls Food Handmade Mugs Women

    handmade ceramics

    Put some great  food on a handmade plate, some fruit in a lovely handmade bowl, drink coffee from a handmade mug. You'll feel the difference, you'll see it. 

    That's when functional pottery truly comes to life.
    Years ago, just out of school, I gave a mug to a friend's husband who didn't really understand what the whole big deal about ceramics was, who needed all this handmade stuff - you know what I'm talking about...anyway, a few months later he told me that he drinks only out of the mug I gave him.

    I truly believe that there is that magical feel using handmade ceramics.

    work in progress
    purple mug purple bowls
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    How much should a mug weigh ?

    Mugs

    question

    I remember a throwing class at Alfred University, one of the first ones with Val Cushing. He asked us "how much should a mug weigh ?"
    Numbers were thrown around, till my friend Matt Towers said - "however much it looks like it weighs". Bingo ! 
    That's the exact match point in the eye-hand relationship.

     When we approach a mug, or any other functional pot, our eye (brain) sends our hand a message about what to expect as to the weight and feel to anticipate when lifting it (if full or empty). That's what makes a "good" pot, good in the sense of creating that match between the look and the feel. 

    A mug , of course, has more aspects to it - a handle we can trust and a rim that is nice to put our lips to. In  addition are the personal-subjective prefferences we all have and those are what make the mug such an intimate, functional pot.


    women series mugs
    blue and white stripes
    striped mugs blue white
    women series mugs
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    The 7th biennalle for Israeli Ceramics at the Eretz Israel Museum

    Exhibitions Tiles Women
    July 2013
     Tonight the 7th biennale for Israeli ceramics opens. Imprinting on clay - Cultural memory in Israeli ceramic art. The curator - Anat Gatenio. You can read about it here - http://www.eretzmuseum.org.il/e/282/
     There are 66 artists, including me...My piece is called -  Proper Dress.
     I've always been interested in women's dress and the connection to women's status in society, in different times. On the one hand, advance, progress on the other - oppression, holding back ( and I'm talking about the western society...)
     I started out with tons of information and images...
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    Then came the editing and sorting stage, Anat the curator, was a huge help. I was getting attatched to the images..but once she got me going, the editing felt good and turned the lots of information into a tight cohesive bunch of information.
     The result is a 6 meter long strip of tiles, picturing western  women's inner and outer attire from ancient greece  to the 20's of the twentieth century.
    Much has changed or maybe not ?
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