SHARDS:
Growing Up With Fulper Pottery
The event is free, no registration required.
And, to whet your appetites, here are some bite-size quotes from the essays I’ll be reading:
“When a treasured piece of pottery breaks, the five stages of grief are compressed, like Cliff Notes, into a more manageable three.”
– from Crack Pot
“Immediately after the show, the Golf Ball vase was returned to its post, outside our front door where, at last it could reflect on all the things it had seen at the Jordan/Volpe Gallery …”
– from She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
“Lipstick and that vase went hand in hand, and I practiced kissing on its smooth, cool cheek. Julie extolled the virtues of kissing the side of the bathtub with its added frisson of nakedness, but the amphora had the advantage of being vertical and somewhat body shaped.”
– from Sex and the Single Glaze
“As things start to heat up inside, the black molecules flow down to meet the gold molecules and engage in their strange alchemy dance, which becomes more intense and transformative as the kiln cools down and crystallization speeds up.”
– from TALL
“My father and his sister had played among the shards, sliding down the packing chute, my aunt, scared out of her wits by the piles of disembodied porcelain dolls’ heads with their spooky, staring eyes.“
– from Angels and Dragonflies