I’m starting a series on Pueblo pottery: while I won’t be able to do all 19 pueblos here, I’ll highlight my favorite styles, starting with Ácoma. I love the monochromatic color scheme and the geometric decorations. The rounded shapes also feel either very old (cf. Mimbres) or very modern to me as well. Ácoma isContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Ácoma pottery”
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Ceramics Saturdays: The Poem Jars of David Drake
Boy, I would kill to be in NYC right now: there’s an exhibit on at the Met of the poem jars of David Drake, an enslaved ceramicist from South Carolina. Unusually, he signed his large-format storage jars, pitchers, and other vessels. Even more unusually, he etched short poems into many: (the one above reads “IContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: The Poem Jars of David Drake”
Ceramics Saturdays: Makgeolli Cups from Jeewon Jeong
I’m so excited, you guys. I’m in the process of getting 8 of these little bowls from my friend Jeewon Jeong. I’m going to use them for makgeolli, but Jeewon says they’re a good size for rice, ice cream, etc. as well. Can’t wait! I’m planning on brewing a special batch of fall makgeolli toContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Makgeolli Cups from Jeewon Jeong”
Berlin Wildlife
I’ve seen some critters here that we don’t have where I live in the States, and so I decided to do some watercolors of them. Not pictured: the Eurasian jay, but I have yet to get a good picture of one I can sketch and paint from….
Travelogue
I can’t believe I finally finished this project. I guess that’s what Covid and some nudging from an art buddy (thanks, Nicole!) can do for a girl…. I’ve been meaning for a long time to teach myself to use GarageBand to compose songs, and I’ve also had these video clips I’ve collected over the lastContinue reading “Travelogue”
Living In…Spirited Away
My aesthetic has a definite bimodal distribution. On the one hand, I like really spare, open (but not necessarily minimalist) monochromatic spaces–which you can see in my Seoul Villa post. On the other hand, I’m irresistibly drawn to spaces and objects with a pronounced “more is more” aesthetic–dark, rich, ornate, with a lot of redsContinue reading “Living In…Spirited Away”
Living In…Seoul Villa
“Living In” was an old series on (the awesome but now sadly defunct) Design*Sponge where different contributors would put together collages (I guess the kids are calling them “mood boards” these days) that brought to life the ambience of a particular movie or book. Here I’m taking it a little more literally and designing housesContinue reading “Living In…Seoul Villa”
Ceramics Saturdays: Vershenkte Teekanne!
One of the neat things about Berlin is that you’ll just find random boxes of stuff on people’s stoops with a little sign that says “Verschenken!” (“give away”). On my way to drop off some knives for sharpening, I picked up this teapot (coffee pot, really) with a dashing little peacock on it. No ideaContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Vershenkte Teekanne!”
Hey, it’s the Sun!
Not the ball–that’s the Fernsehturm 🤣. But the reflection on the building next to it proves the sun actually came out today for a hot minute (sorry, Cassandra)!
Friday Favorites: Feedly Clean-up (words, books, and images)
Some really stunning stuff here: A much-more-fun version of the OED’s “first use” annotations for words: Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster. Look up your favorite word and see when it was first used in print; or, scroll back through some recent neologisms to see, for instance, when “spear phishing” became a thing (2004). I feel likeContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Feedly Clean-up (words, books, and images)”
The Rookery 