Backed up for some time

Found this gem at the Anthropology library today

























Hope to post some things I've actually made soon...

Holiday

I found this at my pottery class last night. I think it was from one of the children's pottery classes. It is beautiful. It is splattered with clay.

Mountain of Big Fire

A song I wrote in Italy last year and recorded in Stourbridge and my house this year. It's about Vesuvius.

Vesuvius by Now-Owl

Yesterday

Yesterday, which is now the day before, a French girl called me from Germany but I said I was having my photo taken and couldn't help her. I half climbed a set of aluminium step ladders and pretended to read a volume of Moomin cartoons. I thought of skidding on my knees along he dusty wooden floor but instead slowly threw two cardboard boxes printed with my initials into the air. Time moved quickly but contained the correct number of minutes and hours and after a familiar supper we blew on whistles and pulled words out of a wooden bowl that made pictures in our heads and joy in our breaths. Relaxed, we read as the windows sung a wheezing drone till we climbed the stairs to the attic where we slept well until the morning, dreaming of islands forgotten by boats but never by the waves which lap them.

Heavy Pencil

New Jam

Pearly New Now Owl Jam
Home Made Home by Now-Owl

Pick of the pots

So,

I've been going to a pottery class for a little while now. It's amazing. It's the most intuitively , therapeutically, spiritually rad thing i can do at the moment. It's about using your hands, cutting out our brain and using a purely aesthetic eye. It's about feeling something and in an instant knowing if it's right or wrong, cool or not. It's about making things that are instantly imbued with some worth because you made it. It's about doing something that people around the world have done in their own way for years, it's kinda a corner stone of civilisation. It's rad.

So,

these are my pots. I've made three so far (not counting a whole heap of fails). I think the guy at the front is my favourite so far, in terms of the weighting and the shape. Now I have to think about glazing. I hope to integrate pottery a bit more into what I do, I'm working that out at the moment, at the moment it's just pure joy.