HeyJaredNotes of a ceramic artist
Everything is clay. I write about the role of ceramics in our culture, history of ceramics, my glaze research and sometimes travels and inspiration. If you spent too much time looking at an amphora at the museum, you will be right at home here.
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The first fire: charting beginnings in clay (opens the original)
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“...And the earth was without form, and void…”In the 1570s Portuguese artist and student of Michelangelo, Francisco de Holanda, created a series of images depicting the creation of the universe. In one of these drawings, he shows the cosmos emerging from a round coiled clay vessel.I flip through the book on the website of the National Library of Spain. The first image shows the book’s wine red leather covers and spine. Part of the side covers have been patched with a red velvet fabric. The title
Shelves and starlight (opens the original)
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