Daily Poetics

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go.

Link: {domestic-construction}.

ted lights

custom tea lights. available in singles and clusters.

Title Quote: Theodore Roethke

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

Link: BETHAN LLOYD WORTHINGTON .

"Various charms and chains are available, please contact me if you would like to make a purchase or discuss a bespoke commission."

Title Quote: Oscar Wilde

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written

Link: Fiona Gray - Ceramic Artist and Illustrator .

LOVE LETTERS STRAIGHT FROM THE KILN             

"The fragility of letters  and the idea of sentiment and thoughts preserved in such a permanent way is a  powerful concept" Spaces magazine, February 2008
   
Have you ever wanted to write someone a love letter but the old fashioned pen and paper method is not for you? Or perhaps you have been tempted to peek at a secret letter written to someone else?

Ceramic artist and illustrator Fiona Gray has created an art form out of the loving words of others, and the desire of one person to peek at the thoughts of another. Her unique porcelain letter parcels offer the writer the chance to preserve their thoughts and feelings in a more permanent way than paper, at the same time seducing the viewer with a special intimacy with the written words.

Fiona came up with the idea of the letter parcels during her MA course in Ceramics, as she was interested in the hidden meanings within an artwork, leaving the viewer to question what was revealed but also questioning the concealed elements. She prints words from people’s letters and private thoughts, perhaps a diary entry or a letter written or received, and censors areas so the viewer is unable to read the whole letter, thus offering them the chance to fill in the blanks.

“It is that desire to reveal properties below the surface or picture plane, the sneak look or glance that is seduction; the intimacy between viewer and the artwork places the viewer, until the last possible moment, in the position of a voyeur.”

Title Quote: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

                                                   

 

What are we willing to give up our lives to if not the perpetuation of the sacred.

Link: Lee Page Hanson: Commissions: Wishbox.

Possibility Tile

Wish Box

Title Quote: Terry Tempest Williams

Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us.

Jordi Canudas

"Less Light" is a sealed lamp shade that needs to be broken in order to release the light trapped within. The shell is cracked using a specially designed hammer. The user decides the appearance and position of the hole depending on how much light is required and where it is to be directed." Jordi Canudas

Title Quote: Nietzsche

Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

Link: Areaware. "

"In this collaboration, redstr/collective and Tobias Wong have taken the Alma Fortune cup and saucer and created a new level of esoteric luxury. Inspired by the age old tradition of Tasseography, Turkish coffee fortune telling, these cups and saucers have one of a kind fortunes suspended in time with 22k gold. Available in three different shapes."

Title Quote: John Milton

I am a part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Link: Salon Tsé & Tsé.

Title Quote: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

Link: Charles & Marie: Tea Code.

"Whether your morning call goes out to a cuppa joe or you prefer the subtle scent of a floral Oolong tea, you'll need a cup to go along with it....

Designed by...Gazin Create this is smart, smart and very good looking. Why twice smart? Well, for one it's a pretty smart idea to add a silicone button - coming with three colors - to the china that allows you to attach your tea bag – if you fancy the broken leaf that is. Secondly, it's also pretty smart that the cup has two layers, it allows the heat to dissipate a lot better than on a single walled cup, eliminating the need for a handle." -Charles and Marie

Title Quote: H.D. Thoreau

until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Link: .Tableware by Angel Ha

     "The plain-coloured ceramic surface wears away with repeated contact (rubs), allowing the pattern underneath to appear gradually.      The set not only l 'improves' with time, it also acts as a manifest of the interactions.  Each cup is personalized with individual ways of touching."

     "Tableware ...
an intriguing world under the surface is reveal..."

-Angel Ha

(quote:  e.e. cummings)

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

Link: Artware Editions.

Description:

"This set of seven handcrafted ceramic vases designed by Roy McMakin were fabricated by Heath ceramics in Sausalito, California, one of the few remaining mid-century American potteries. Each of the seven unique vase designs existed as one-off ideas by McMakin which he kept scattered around his studio. After the visit of one of the artist’s dealers, McMakin pulled the vases together and paired again with Heath ceramics to produce this exquisite limited edition set. As is a common element of McMakin’s visual language, the artist has tweaked the function of these seven iconic vessel forms, rendering their normal functions useless or changed."

Title Quote: Blaise Pascal