Security Blanket #3

I have so many ideas coming at me from all directions.  I am working on Security Blanket #3 today.  Each one has its own color scheme and contrasts of texture, color, shape.  I am working so fast that I am forgetting to ask "Why?"  Ha.  I find that when I am working like this, everything falls behind.  I see the piece in my mind when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.  It, the piece that I am currently working on, is taking on its own story and driving me crazy.  Older pieces sometimes make their voices heard too.  "Why did you use pink?  You hate pink.....etc."  I like writing this blog because it calms me down.  Writing your thoughts down in a journal form helps make ideas tangible.  I encourage all of you out there to organize your ideas and projects on "paper".   You never know what is going to come out.  Thoughts that are only casually formed, start to take on a new direction and become much better that if you didn't write them down.  I find that blogging leads to more creative thinking, taking me farther  to formulate my ideas  in words.  In general, I am not a very verbal person.  I am visual as in seeing everything at one time surrounded by environment, colors, shapes...it drives me crazy.

John Roloff

The most amazing thing happened at our studio a couple of weeks ago.  John Roloff turned up from California and started a clay sculpture in my husband, Steve Briggs's, clay studio. (My old studio too.)  John is making a ship of clay in geological time that will be installed at the Denver Art Museum in their current exhibit:  Overthrown:  Clay Without Limits.  The show opens June 10, 2011 in the Hamilton Building.  John's work is a large-scale installation that will take up a whole room.  Steve and John went out to local clay pits and dug a great amount of clay in the various geological formations that run along the front range of Denver.

Here is what the form looked like that he filled with clay:

John and Steve worked for three very long days until it was finished.  It has been drying in our studio for  a week or more and the two days ago a crew of movers from the museum came to pick it up in a very large white truck. 

John will take the mold off at the installation in the Museum and add some other things to make it complete.  I can not wait until the opening when I can see what he has done.  As I said, it is all very exciting.  His show is part of a larger show that will take over the whole DAM called MARVELOUS MUD:  Clay Around the World.