SAMOVAR LUST: sitting, thinking, staring, figuring sh*t out....

(Samovar, good lord, don't you want one too????)

Do you know what a samovar is? Its like a big, fancy, hot tea thing, MANY MANY cups of hot tea in there, bubbling away all day. You read about those things keeping Russians warm out there in the snowy wastes....I wish I had a samovar. AS IT IS, I have my own teapots, and it is my habit to make a pot of tea in the biggest and then sip some every hour all morning, mmmm. Except it is cold after a bit.

ANYWAY, my point? I am having one of those afternoons yesterday, the list says "make 3 large of these, 2 small of those etc" and I am making this large bowl of a certain shape and as I am making it, SOMETHING else is coming through the clay. I mean, i direct the show, but the making was showing a sweet possibility and I went with it.

OK, then today, more tea, more sitting there, now its time to finish that bowl, and I am thinking "Godzilla? Checkerboard pattern? (like teapot in post below) Crocodile? How and where does the croc go? And why not a shark too.....? And THEN it could be blue on one side of the bowl and green on the other and and and..." You probably think artists spend a lot of time staring at things....well, WE DO.

I have to share it with you...have an awesome day....