"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust
Today I took a photo just a block from my house, of this - what? exhaust duct? Vent of some kind? I've lived here for seven years, and I have never noticed this thing before, although it's not small - it's maybe ten feet high. It is at the back of a building, but still perfectly visible from the road.
This shape would make a great teapot body. I could interpret it somewhat literally, out of slabs, preserving the industrial character of it; or less literally, as a thrown piece, and focus on preserving the proportions.
Inspiration comes from seeing what is really there.
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I'll have to come back and see if anyone comments who knows what it is. I also liked your discipline (practice) of taking a picture a day. Excellent idea.
Just wish you wouldn't have the word verification thing on your comments here. It's a royal pain sometimes.
Yes, yes ... to see. -gr.
@Barbara - Actually I hate the word verification as well. I just randomly type letters until something matches, like the proverbial monkey at the typewriter. Maybe I'll spend some time this week figuring out how to turn it off.
My other blog used to get a crazy lot of spam without it, but I've recently had bloggers tell me it's not so bad now.
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