Like many people in North America, my first experience with Chinese astrology took place when I was a kid in an American “Chinese” restaurant. Probably someplace called Ming’s or Canton Buffet. You get the picture…overcooked vegetables, lumpy sauces loaded with MSG, special fried rice with everything except the kitchen sink, oh, and fortune cookies. The placemat…
Bacerra, Ralph C., b. 1938 d. 2008 Ceramicist Los Angeles, Calif. Oral history interview with Ralph Bacerra, 2004 Apr. 7-19, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Bacerra speaks of his family background; his high school art teachers; attending Chouinard Art Institute and his friendship with his ceramics instructor Vivika Heino and her husband Otto; the…
About seven years ago, my friend Mi-Kyoung performed a Korean Tea Ceremony for me. The pottery she was using was beautiful, traditional, and we were at her brothers home near Vancouver. The author of several Korean cookbooks, she is used to logically laying out steps. What she was doing was informed by much more than…
Mishima inlay is very attractive to me and I want to do more of it. This form of inlay does require a painstaking process using colored slips. First, I had to remove clay from the areas I wanted to inlay, then fill them with slip, let it absorb over time, then add more, etc. Finally,…
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