The New Year

Death : The Enemy, The Magician: Creator and Trickster, The Star: Ray of Hope, oxide and high fire white on english porcelain and The Zodiac, high and low fire on studio slop remixed.
Happy New Year

Potters Pots in Echo Park
Sunday December 9th 2012
10-2 on the great lawn at Sargent Court

Tide Pools at Leo

Tide pools at Leo Carrillo
I am pretty sure that divers brought all these Seastars close to the shore, which is wrong and bad for the Seastars however, very beautiful.  I am sure they all creeped back out to their homes in the ocean.

Qotsamana

Katsina in Hopi Life
June 29,  2012 - June 23, 2013
Autry Museum
Los Angeles, California

IKO IKO

Blue Moon and Leo plates
available at IKO IKO
link
High fire High fire Low fire Low fire
Can not even begin to give away the glaze secrets here:)

Carol Kee Squash Blossom

A Dog a Duck and a Mouse move to Echo Park

Minnie

Minnie looking in box

Rabble Rouser

                                             

 

                                  
An inspiring visit with Michael Frimkess and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
Magdalena works everyday doing her drawings with glaze on pots that Michael had made or pieces that she formed herself.  We just happened to visit the day they unloaded the kiln! This is a portion of conversation from Magdalena in an interview done in 2001...

DR. KARLSTROM: Describe some of your favorite subjects that you liked to paint.
MRS. FRIMKESS: Well, I started copying the Mexicans first, I think. That was the one thing I used to do, copying the Aztecs and all those, because I felt more familiar with my culture. I tried to give something of myself. So I started making cartoons with the Aztecs, making it to the nowadays. And then, without knowing, came everything then, came the Mickey Mouse and came the Snow White, came everybody, so they were all mixed up.
DR. KARLSTROM: But the Mickey Mouses and Snow Whites were things that you chose.
MRS. FRIMKESS: Oh, yeah, for the particular day that I was working on, yeah.
DR. KARLSTROM: Well, did you and Michael talk about how to decorate these?
MRS. FRIMKESS: Never. We don't talk. We really don't talk. I'll be crazy if I talk to him. So I avoid.
DR. KARLSTROM: Even about the work?
MRS. FRIMKESS: Oh, less. Never. Like we talk about the dog, the food, never about even the glaze. First time I started working with the glaze, he said, "You figure it out." He didn't help me.
DR. KARLSTROM: Did you figure it out?
MRS. FRIMKESS: Yeah, I did.
                                          
Text from The Smithsonian Archives of American Art an                                          
Oral history interview with Michael and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, 2001 Mar. 8-Apr. 17                                          
Link to full interview here

When the Sun Rose

When the Sun Rose by Barbara Helen Berger
My boys love this book and the bit about the rainbow on the wall still shining finally clicked for my today.