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An Artist's Reflections on Art, Life, and the gray areas in between.

"Holidays" by lawatson on January 6, 2007, 11:17 pm, in category General
1/6/2006 Saturday What's been going on for two weeks? This is kind of fun to look back and see what those 14 days have brought. Most of the holidays were rather quiet, and I didn't work at all in the studio. One of the best parts was a mini-vacation at my friend Claudia's where she lives in a nature sanctuary. She is a kind and generous host, and the stay was so pleasant and unhurried and beautiful.
    The sanctuary is on a small gorge cut in the limestone of Ohio by th.....

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"Relaxing and physics" by lawatson on December 22, 2006, 4:29 pm, in category General
12/22/2006 Friday It's been a while since I've been on my Blog, and that's because I have been on hiatus, a mental vacation, out of the studio, recharging my batteries, getting centered, being slow and lazy, taking naps, sleeping in, fasting, eating well, being kind to myself. That sure sounds silly in our Puritanical society. Being kind to myself. It's hard to admit coming from a hardworking family. Idle hands. . . .
    This is the time that I take off, to some degree,.....

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"New Affirmation" by lawatson on November 3, 2006, 11:54 pm, in category General
Earlier this week I made a wonderful transformation to a former obstacle in my life. Myself. My own thinking. See, I discovered through the Enneagram that, as a 7, I have a desire for choices and options. The result is that I have  a tendency to avoid finishing things because it appears to my twisted mind to limit my options! So I decided I needed to find a way to turn that very powerful obstacle into an ally, into a liberating power. So this affirmation came to mind: "My options multi.....

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"Midnight walk" by lawatson on November 3, 2006, 11:52 pm, in category General
11-3-2006 I couldn't resist the perfect night for a midnight walk under moonlight. Rudy and I donned the flashing arm bands for visibility on this little country road, and marched off into the sub-freezing temperatures and semi light of a full moon. The neighbors' obnoxious street lights didn't have a chance against this star studded night, and the moon had dominance the whole way. The cold night was crisp and biting on my face, portentous of nights to come in the real heart of winter. I am so g.....

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"Before the show" by lawatson on October 27, 2006, 8:42 pm, in category General
10-27-2006 Friday night before the big sale! A newspaper called today and hopes to come out tomorrow for the kiln opening. That would be nice! I'm looking forward to an unprecedented crowd of mad shoppers loading up shopping bags of pottery. Yes. Sweet.
    The firing went pretty well yesterday. After finishing the reduction aspect, it had not risen in temperature, and had actually fallen a bit. So I put the burners back up to full and went in the house for a half hour or.....

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"Autumn" by lawatson on October 23, 2006, 9:47 am, in category General
10-22-2006 Sunday Walking the road at dawn, the flat light pre-sun lets colors mingle, and the rime frosted fence rails, thistle heads, and queen Anne's lace are warm in their mauves and browns. The leaves seem to drip from the trees, and I want to paint them that way; thin leaves drooping over and elongating at their tips with melting caramel drops. The fence posts and thistles march steadily, in cadence with my solo footsteps. The sun rises to the hilltops, flaming the other side, lighting up .....

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"TallStacks revisited" by lawatson on October 9, 2006, 8:46 am, in category General
10-9-2006 I slept in gloriously, holding most of the guilt at bay, looking out the window to a blanket of fog wrapping around the trees, daylight already drifting through the water droplets. The sun is up somewhere at this hour, but the low rays take a few more minutes to dodge through the droplets, touching them with heaviness, falling as dewdrops on the grass. The sun spotlights golden leaves and goldenrod, then some purple Ironweed in the pasture, calling for a palette dominated with yellow. .....

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"TallStacks II" by lawatson on October 9, 2006, 1:18 am, in category General
Sunday10-8-2006 "Larry, you're not just a cheap date, you're a 'cheat' date." Meeting a friend at the Tall Stacks stage, I was told that I was a bad influence because I had showed her how to sneak in. Well, I think it's outrageous the way they didn't have single day tickets, and she just wanted to come to the last night. But that's got to be one of the top quotes of the year for me. I got a great laugh out of it. Gotta laugh at myself.
    By the way, I paid full price f.....

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"TallStacks" by lawatson on October 6, 2006, 4:22 pm, in category General
10-6-2006 1pm
The sky is so blue, painters will have to invent a new color.
The trees are so green, they must be bleeding chlorophyll.
Some tress are golden, and they must have a pot of gold under their roots, and if I spent all day, I could dig it up if the leprechauns would let me.
The sun is so bright that there couldn't be a swimming pool big enough to hold all the light pouring down on me.

9amHyde Park went well, the new display was received favorably, but sales we.....

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"8/18/06 New York" by lawatson on August 21, 2006, 9:46 pm, in category General
8-18-06
I joyfully slept in this morning, getting my 8 hours of sleep for once this week. Breakfast was the usual great buffet at the Leo House. I came to find out that a priest founded the Leo house as starting point for immigrants, a safe haven for their first days in the New World. It was built in the mid 19th century, at a time when the phrase "just got off the boat" was coined. So many of those emigrating from persecution and hardship were defrauded upon landing at the shores of Manhatt.....

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