Post #681821 by Hale Tiki on Thu, Jun 13, 2013 4:00 AM

Bowls have been a passion of mine the last two years. It's been very hard because a.) good bowls are expensive and b.) good bowls are few and far between. One of my favorite artist bowls was one I picked up from Trader Tom. It doesn't even hold much, I just dig the glazes, and the naked ladies. And the shape.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you come up with. I love your early bowls and glazes. Also, I'll have to track down the photo, but years and years ago, when I was photographing my grandparents as part of a project to recreate old horror and scifi movies using the same techniques they had in the 50's and 60's, there was a shot of a "farm couple" who had just seen a UFO. I had the exact same miniature UFO model made by Lindberg and used in Plan 9 hanging in the background, and was relying on the compression of a telephoto lens to force perspective. Anyway, for it, I had my grandmother make it look like she was screaming. So she had to open and close her mouth over and over again. Except that she started to "scream," after awhile. And by scream, I mean make a low pitched moan, because she was pretending to scream, so there was no reason to actually scream. Eventually I asked her what she was doing, and we had a good laugh over it.

I thought of that, and had a good laugh again, at the thought of you sitting there with a mirror, working on the bowl, just repeatedly opening your mouth to make it look like you're screaming. :)