Jul 18 2017
Rob the Artist
Rob has been taking a ceramics class lately, and I love his new creations.
He treats assignments creatively. For example, the assignment was to make a teapot. Here’s what Rob made:
It’s a man, with a bird and a tree. It’s kind of an abstract idea of a teapot.
He also made this wonderfully textured tile:
It reminds me of MC Escher*.
This might be my favorite: Rob’s hand rising out of leaves which remind me of an Elizabethan ruff:
I may well be the most influential collector of his work, which is as useful as it is beautiful. I keep my car keys and iPod in this dish, which he patterned with a cabbage leaf:
This scalloped dish holds necessary beautifiers in the bathroom:
And at work, this holds paperclips:
He recently stopped by with a ceramic copy of the license plate from his 1960 Ford Falcon**:
It has to be the best license plate ever. And words to live by!
A YEAR AGO: A beautiful day at the Gardens.
FIVE YEARS AGO: Whole lotta movin’ going on.
*My friend Alice mentioned recently that her husband hails from the same village as Escher, and his father bought four drawings from Escher for about $50 when Escher was still unknown. He sold the drawings before Escher reached his pinnacle of fame, and they would be worth a lot of money now. At least they still have a handwritten letter from the artist.
**I have noticed a deplorable trend lately of new cars with the old black California license plates on them. It just seems wrong. They don’t belong on new cars, and they haven’t earned the right to use a 50 year old plate. I think Mammy said it best.