You are soooo amazing!!!!

Thanks!

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Cheers, Jerry

I really enjoy seeing the richness of your crackle glazes ... and your aesthetical designs continue to delight me and inspire me to want to get my house building completed so that I can get my ceramic oven set up.

Jerry, is the top curved slab inspired by art of the Ashanti (African) culture? Particularly their traditional 'royal' throne chair... don't know what they call it. I get that feeling as I look at these last two items you've posted.

Fabulous piece!

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Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it. (Fernand Leger)

Thanks! Yes, you caught me juxtaposing cultural references again. The lid is a crude representation of an African Ashanti throne chair, incised with Chinese symbology for "Long Life" and some stylized Coy fish. And the pot is sitting on a Japanese style square sushi plate.

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Cheers, Jerry

Your so very welcome! Love your work!!

While working on my MFA (Glass Sculpture) eons ago I had taken an African Art History course. The Ashanti thrown chair was something that really spoke to me with its form, in addition to their fertility fetish. I have often thought that one day I would make a throne chair styled with modern materials, ie., welded sheet bronze for the framework with blown and slumped glass defining the center support and seating area. This curvilinear seat would also be lit from within along with the blown glass cylindrical support.

Alas... now I don't have my welding equipment or the glass studio so I may have to settle for the traditional (carving it from wood) as I seem to have an abundance of that!

Love your piece and the symbolism adds to the aesthetic beauty and charm.

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Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it. (Fernand Leger)

I never tire of viewing your work! Your mix of cultural influences as well as your own wholly original designs and textures and use of glazes along with the other pieces that you've made use of inclusions just leaves me in awe! I simply love your work!

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Thank you very much!

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Cheers, Jerry

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