clay play

Why must I play? I love finishing pieces. I love seeing something work the way I imagined it. I love the mistakes that teach me and inspire me. I love seeing something beautiful that came from my hands.

Why must I... Clay is a marriage or, rather, a series of functional and disfunctional families. It is the imaginative but it also the practical. Items must have a purpose, even if that purpose is beauty. Clay demands that its subjects be art, even in the most rustic form, yet it is so practical it demands to be useful. It is soft and flexibly, easily moldable yet defies smoothing in its crevicies, bubbles with glaze, shrinks and burns. Clay is the perfect name for child, maliable in youth, fragile in adolescence, set in it's ways as an adult.

And so I too am clay, and hereby melt away.

New shop!

Check out my shop on etsy:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5312860

Ceramic Pendant

Ceramic Pendant, originally uploaded by littleoutrageous.

Experimenting with backgrounds...

Fanatics and their heroin.

If "religion is the opiate of the people", fanatics are heroin addicts.

Ceramic Pendants

Ceramic Pendants, originally uploaded by littleoutrageous.

Blac and red work well. I'm not sure about the glaze combo to the far right... a little muddied, a little pink. The texture black with cracked red and cream on the left seems to work a little better. All red is cool but contrast is soooo important!

Inspired By Him

Inspired By Him, originally uploaded by littleoutrageous.

I like this piece - I'm just not sure it's marketable. I think I'll make a few more in this theme when I get on etsy. If folks like them great, otherwise... well I like them and I can always use more jewelry.

Play Light

Play Light, originally uploaded by littleoutrageous.

I haven't figured out how to photograph my pieces yet. I'm loving the contrast in this piece, with that splash of red. I think this piece sold at one of the home-sales but, would you believe it, I'm not actually sure.

Got in a fight with my man. I pick fights. I feel justified doing it. I'll want to discuss something that's bothering me, I'll try to phrase my argument in a non-acusatory way but I'll offend him anyway. I won't complete my objective for fear of hurting his feelings. Don't get me wrong, the extent of damage an arguement does, the volume of the fight and the value of the discussion varies from man to man. 'A' is great. 'C' was a bastard about things ("it's my way or the highway".... seriously). 'A' isn't quite a push over but I wish he'd stand up for himself by argueing back, not by looking hurt and upset and saying nothing. Still, I bet he wishes I'd quit bringing things up.

Savage Love is probably right... every relationship fails until the one that doesn't. Sometimes that one fails too, I guess.

'Night.

Nicole

Nietzsche

Maybe Nietzsche wasn't an angry dude. Maybe he just wrote when he was angry.

No one except YOUR mother should have the balls to ask you a favour more than once.

My writing needs some work

It's been way to long and I've forgotten how to edit.

Oh well

You're traveling at great speeds in metal contraptions made by factories who only have your best interest at heart so long as it won't cost them anything. You're interacting with strangers, some inside other metal contraptions, some with no protection of any sort. Why should I have to risk getting hit by a car when I'm going on a walk? Why do you get to put me in harm's way because you insist on doing this ridiculous thing? Why should there be wars over the time it takes you to get to work? Did you know that a well run transit system would cost us all a lot less money? Did you know we could vote to MAKE them develop products that would run this system. They're our government. They belong to us as no human being could ever belong to another. They are honour bound to think of us before themselves and they never do this. The government is an entity designed and obligated to be our slave. It is the only thing in the entire universe so obligated. The government should be the altruism of every person with the single goal of doing what is best for each of us.

You. You are obligated to fight tyranny and corruption. You are obligated to care for the children, the elderly, the troubled, the sick. You. And so it is your obligation, as a citizen of any country, as a citizen of the world, to make your representative, your vote, your government. It is your obligation to support systems critically, thoughtfully, carefully - to choose with your most altruistic self. Open yourself to people from all walks of life, from all sexes, from all cultures, from all beliefs. Make your choices based on your best understanding. Research. Think. Your sources should be many.