Ceramic Survivors

This choice collection of ceramic creatures and objects dates to the 1980s, all made by one pair of hands belonging to a a girl born in 1976 who spent her entire childhood making small objects in three dimensions. She could not be stopped – and of course no one wanted to stop her. The garage at her mother's house today overflows with creative relics from that busy childhood. Even though many of the more fragile paper constructions disintegrated long ago, these glazed-and-fired pieces remain pristine. For 20 years and more they have been the last items I would pack when leaving an old place and the first to unpack in a new place. The shelf they sit on now sits under the window that lights the sewing table. It is a tall old sash window, uncurtained. And out the window at mid-summer, like now, all you see is birch leaves. In the winter it is birch twigs.

Back Row: Elephant, Dragon, Ocean Wave

Center: Salt & Pepper Shakers Masquerading as Lemons

Front: Jade on Ceramic Stand, Spotted Dog, Square Bowl with Crystal Ball