Ceramic Love

I love ceramics: old and new. I hate that they break but I guess that's part of the precious feeling we experience.
This week I have been having a hard time dealing with the final and most intense of a trilogy of breaks.


Dawn Vachon new works are basically my dream of perfect.
Available at SMALLpieces
and CRAFT

These images are of Big Creek Pottery Workshop I found via an ambitious project collapsing. They could very easily be the photos of my parents and friends. My mother lost her wedding ring while throwing a pot and falling in love with the real love of her life.

The end of everything

While browsing in Paradise Books, I came across a photograph of Marilyn Monroe, which I am sure, I had never seen. Andre de Dienes is the photographer and the photos where taken in either 1952 or 1953. The text stated that Monroe had called de Dienes late one night unable to sleep and in the grip of a dark depression. He picked her up and they took these shots in the dingy back alleys of the Hollywood hills. The cars headlights light the shots. Monroe told de Dienes to title the shots The end of everything. They seem like stills from a dark little fairytale.