Sexy dessert

8 bowls, various dimensions. All Sexy, especially when filled with desserts.

Look at these colors, so much depth and luminescence in the dark glazes!

Each bowl has a golden lip. The raised, stylized design is unique to each bowl and represents the movement of swirling black water. The bowls are hand pinched and formed so that the sense of touch can share a delight with taste and sight as desserts are eaten.

Slug does Yoga

Detail of color, unglazed spikes, interior and exterior

A gaping mouth, or an opening gesture? Yoga Spike is versatile.

Top view

Downward Dog Pose is one of my favorites. It's what this spiky slug appears to be doing. His rippling flanges are practically moving like the flamenco skirt they resemble.
Hight 23cm x length 44cm x width 20cm

Bubble warts

Detail of color, showing the un-glazed bubble warts, ringed in orange from the oxide in the green glaze. The textured line soak up the transparent glazes beautifully.
Top view
Inside the 'bowl' shows a close-up of the contrasting textures and rich colors
Interior view
Bubble warts are another practical sculpture. Sit it one way and it's a sea slug sculture. Turned over and it is a serving dish. Seafood pasta?
I'm still not bored with finding new, interesting ways to disguise the unglazed foot. And the bubbles are beautifully accentuated by the burnt orange rings.

Manta Mantra

Seen from all postures
Lye him down and see him smile
Stand him up!
Height 53cm x width 30cm x depth 30cm
ON a dive trip to Similan Islands with friends, our primary objective was to encounter some Manta rays. We chanted. Our mantra;MANTA. It worked. We got to experience some wonderful, up-close moments some of these graceful, beautiful, playful giants. It was a magic moment.
Manta Mantra is, once again, a sculpture to be appreciated from all angles. He can lie down, giving the image of flying/swimming. The unglazed foot reveals the cavity and feeding mandibles. Or he can stand up on the mandibles, in the posture of a dive.
The manta has some deep, highlighted cracks in his body. The cracks add a thoughtful dimension to the sculpture, hinting at the cracks in the fragile environment he swims in. But these cracks also add beauty and are highlighted with the liquid blue glaze that I love to use.

O'Keef's slug

Long view

Length 68cm x height 12cm x width 20cm
Bottom view
Close up of color detail from top to interior
Georgia O'Keef's Slug
I was inspired by the suggestive subject of Georgia O'Keef's paintings. I wanted to do a similar thing with my ceramics. Instead of her floral subject, I've also adapted this theme to suit my familiar topic of marine life. I think I was successful in my adaptation of O'Keef's imagery. The pink folding lips are not subtle. I also continue to enjoy the appreciation of the negative space in the vessel.
Her slug, here, is a sculpture that can be appreciated from all angles. She has no bottom. It's fun to turn her around and up-side-down, to get changing perspectives of her curves.