I'd love to upload photos of the 100 Mugs, which did, blessedly all get done within the 100-day timeframe. But I can't because my camera has not yet come home from its in-patient stay at Camera Hospital. I was organizind CDs (well, organizing is a strong work for what i was doing. I was actually just picking out the empty cases, and matching them up with the loose CDs) when I found a couple of discs of photos. I opened them to see what was there and found, among other things, my old booth shot. Makes me nostalgic, and it makes me want to take another look at doing art fairs again; how and if I could make that happen. That was fun.
what a nice booth display, I like the asymetrical aspect of it. Did you make your shelves? If so how did you put them together. Good luck at the sale this next week.
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Lori Keenan Watts (aka me) is a potter, gardener, and avid reader from Augusta, Maine. Though I started my university education in surface design for fabric, clay quickly grabbed me by the heart and redirected my creative impulses. I have been a potter for over 25 years -- hard to believe. The most valuable years of my ceramic education were spent in graduate study at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, under the tutalage of Dan Anderson and Paul Dresang.
My aesthetic is guided by my love of the material itself. What fascinates me and makes a pot compelling for me is the clay-ness of clay: the squooshiness that becomes the adamantine solidity. I also like patterns, unexpected proportions, and when the flame comes along and dissolves part of my careful decorating efforts! I am obstinate about this aesthetic, to a point which might be called pig-headed, but hey, if you don't like what you make, why bother?
My happy little family also includes my husband, musician and photographer (and author of the book Alewife) Doug Watts; five cats; and a turtle, all foundlings and rescues of one stripe or another.
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what a nice booth display, I like the asymetrical aspect of it. Did you make your shelves? If so how did you put them together. Good luck at the sale this next week.
Congrats on getting all of the mugs done!! And best of luck with the show.
Booth looks nice... great touch to have the carpet there defining your space.
I hope you enjoy the event next Tuesday. Maybe someone else will take some pictures for you if your camera has not finished its treatment by then.
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