Honoring Saint Patrick through the color green, a cheese teapot and violence. This is a green horn worm. It hurts tomatoes (violent content)
It also influenced the creation of my biomorphic sculpture placed into the above diorama; part Weegee, Black Dalia and Hillside Strangler. I used Tom Coleman “Green to Black” satin glaze. My experience was the opposite. Mostly black with a dab of green.
Instructor Keiko trying to respond (in her adopted language) to a tennis shoe wearing wedge of cheese. A teapot that became a pirate after his eyeball fell off. (violent content)
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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. May the luck of the Irish be with you
My ceramic instructor Ms Fukazawa
The Irish Traveler Margaret Barry
You r an Art Wiz.
Happy Saint Patrick Day to all the saints & patrick’s around the globe!
I love the way you think.
That worm diorama (I’m sure that’s the wrong word) is fabulous.
Happy St. Pat’s day.
Hey, my green wreath avatar is very festive for today, yes?
I love Keiko. She reminded me of my ceramics instructor, a really talented lovely artist who would look at my stuff, scrunch his forehead and say, “Wellllll, hmmmm, let’s seeeeee…” Don’t think we got beyond that.
What a bad worm.
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Cafe (and now Pasadena): Gee Whiz, you have more identities then Sybil
Laurie: Only the most evolved of bloggers can truly appreciate my thought process. Diorama, you stand correct and yes, finally your avatar hits the mark (christmas too) you can also throw in a few pagan ceremonies.
AH: Oh no. Has it discouraged you from continuing in ceramics? One of my instructors requires us to switch our work with other students for the final critique and then talk about “said” piece. He always makes sure I get a difficult piece. One semester it was this flaming gay kid who handed over a clump representing his beloved Beyonce. He looked scared when it came to my turn to represent him. But I did him kind. He returned the favor by telling me that McDonald’s coffee is better then Star B….s (he was a barista for them)
Margaret: Try worms, they chew in packs.
btw: In Irish tradition Lilith gets a better job description. She gives her favors to celibates, mystics and hermits.
Happy day after St Patrick’s. I also like your ceramic scene, looks like it’s from the future or an Archie McPhee catalog.
http://www.mcphee.com/shop/products/Horse-Head-Mask.html
A multiple personality K9, PA.
Very funny story — I wonder what you said.
Margaret Barry!!!
Now, she is new to me and I am adding her to my extensive collection of Irish music!
I tip my Guinness to you.
Haven’t we seen the satin worm before? I love the diorama, truly evolved. And I’m very sensitive about critters that damage tomatoes, their days are always numbered.
The Margaret Barry piece is heart piercing, I wonder if she influenced Joan Baez?
D, I want the bacon bandages.
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D: Thanks on the worm. My less intrepid fan base has been complimentary via e-mail. I have it on a rebar stick right now. Gives off a Alice in Wonderland vibe. Like it, gonna make another.
McPhee….I WANT that bacon wrist watch and how was it that I didn’t know Saint Gertrude is the patron saint of cats? Thanks McPhee
CO: (don’t think I didn’t read your confession to chief dbdubya that your a human with two cats named Puss and Boots)
AH: I don’t remember. So are you still taking ceramics?
Shanna: Isn’t she a peach? Sad but true story. I was introduced to Traveler culture when I was in Ireland. When I came home I repeatedly checked out a Tinker Album of original recordings along with Charlotte Salomon’s opus Leben oder Theater from the LA Central Library. I loved them so that I kept them past due. Finally I turned them in and it was that very night that part of the Library went up in flames. Both were lost.
Years later I visited a fellow named Frank at the Brewery. He was packing up and leaving to go north. I noticed the Leben oder Theater book on the top of a pile. I told him the above story and he gave the book to me. Frank taught me a lot about generosity (of spirit and object) A long time AA man.
Paula: Could you be thinking of my Capadochia’s? Near enough. Similar technique but the worm has projectiles and more curves.
re: diorama. ..the background is from the architectural plans for Fire Station 5. The grass is my door matt and the figures belonged to my father. The murder scene is part Weegee. Black Dalia and Hillside strangler. Into this scenario I’ve introduced my puree sucking worm.
Baez: She was influenced along with other folkies of the Scotts-Irish irish tradition of folk music. Tinkers in America are a part of that tradition. Some members of the tribe were the radical Molly Macguires.
That was akick. thank you for sharing. Really
I am sure I left a “I’ll be back” comment…
ANYWAY, the green catapiller is such a cutie. The diorama is fantastical – the worm in mostly black is great, the scene somewhat alarming (isn’t that the point) works well together… Do I spot the Firestation No. 5 as set background?? (I recognized it, really, before I read the above). Did you ever read the book on the the Hillside Strangler? It’s horrifying.
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Jim: Thanks. I’m still going to continue with the tiles even if they are a son of a bitch to load
Tash: (in a e-mail) The funny thing about the worm piece is that it looks surprisingly good in a public setting.
I’ve seen the movie, read the book, watched the Frontline episode, googled the sites, knew some of the the participants (detective, psychiatrist assistant) and through a degree of separation, the victims (the first two were stable girls). I even kept the newspaper clipping of Angelo Buono’s obit.
Supposedly there is a new book out that takes the side of Bianchi multiples. Is that the book you read? (James Elroy’s fictionalized account of the Black Dahlia was a good read)