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Mandalas - Oculus - Grails
The motif is the mandala. As an ancient, pre-historic symbol, it represents the point of creation. At it’s most basic, the mandala is a circle around a point. A zero. The point of no-thing from which everything begins whether it be the "Big Bang", geometry, platonic solids, the atom, thought, being or the point of this exercise.
The format is the unending line that originates from a point and comes back to its origin thus creating a circle. The circle here is a bowl of uniform size and shape. It is the parameter within which I've limited myself to explore the unlimited. Anything based on the circle is grist for the mill.
The urns are designed to emulate another ancient artifact…the plummet. They began as commissioned funerary urns, which evolved into a second template but in 3 dimensions instead of the mandala’s two. The axis is the point. While still functional, they’ve become much more.
The Grails are designed to be ceremonial as well as a continuation of the theme used in both the mandalas and urns. Most have been purchased to memorialize weddings. They are functional.
The two basic shapes of the urns and bowls are self-imposed boundaries within which I’m free to imagine the Mystery. As new information comes in, the content changes.
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Comment by Craig Rhodes on May 28, 2012 at 6:41am
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All work in this album was fired in cone 6 electric oxidation. Each is first glazed with a gun metal black glaze then fired to cone 6. Then overglazes are applied over the gun metal glaze and multi-fired to cone 05 electric oxidation. The gun metal is sprayed on and the overglazes are applied with an Airpen.
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