News from Earth and Fire
Scavenger Hunt!
When I met Aaron Sober at the American Craft Council show in Baltimore in February and talked to him about sending me pots for the online gallery, I knew he was both intrigued and skeptical. He didn't know me. I was just a person coming up to him asking to take 10 of his pots with me without paying for them. The more I talked, the more I could feel him coming around to believing that I was who I said I was and that there was an opportunity for us to work together. I gave him the names of a few other potters (who were also at the show) who had worked with me in the past, and I left him to ponder the proposition for a while.
I wandered on over to Sam Taylor's booth -- one of the potters whose name I had given to Aaron, and discovered that Aaron had beat me over there to check me out. I suppose, since you know that I did wind up taking 10 pots from him after that show that.. "the rest is history" as they say.
Aaron's pots did very well in the March show, and so, he's sent me some more. That's the way it works around here.
You can see all of the pots Aaron sent by clicking here.
Willem Gebben is back again as well.
It's not always about big and expensive. I fell in love with the set of small dotted bowls and small dotted cups that Willem sent this time. I just think that each set absolutely belongs together. What I'm going to do with both the bowls and the cups is to offer them until June 16 as a set (either the set of bowls OR the set of cups). If you want to buy a just one or two, go ahead and put in your bid for it through the shopping cart mechanism, and if no one has bought the set by June 16, then I'll go ahead and break up the sets and sell them individually. If you do want to buy either the set of the cups or the bowls, I've set up links to buy the entire set. Got that? If not, shoot me an email with any questions.
See all of Willem's pots here.
Finally, I have pots from an artist who is new to Earth and Fire, Simon Levin. Simon's work is notable for the wonderful markings he gets from the flashing of the fire around the pots in the kiln. Although Aaron knows the path that the fire takes through the kiln during a firing, he has no control over what is going to happen to any one particular pot.
Can you name another medium wherein the artist gives up so much control over his/her work? For better or worse, there's just only so much the potter can do.
That continues to fascinate me. See the rest Simon's pots here.
So what's with the Scavenger Hunt?
As I was setting up the thumbnail images for these new pots, it occured to me that with the new format for the thumbnails on the Artists page, the original purpose of them, which was to help you remember what each potters work looked like, has been changed somewhat because the thumbnails are no longer pictures of entire pots. It occurred to me that it might be fun to have a little challenge for you to figure out WHICH pot the thumbnail image came from.
I've set up a Scavenger Hunt, where in you are asked to identify the ten pots that the thumbnails were taken from -- both potter and actual pot (as identified on that artists page). If you successfully identify all ten thumbnails, you'll receive 15% off your order.
Ready for a little fun? Go on the Scavenger Hunt!!
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