Here is another side of my creative brain, and hands, and thoughts...
It is my latest  ceramic sculpture entitled "What's on Your Mind". It was recently in a show held at the Sedona Arts Center, here in Sedona, Arizona.
Standing  almost a foot tall, you see a pleasant looking, glazed woman's head,  with a wee person sitting there.
This little celadon green figure, a female by anatomy, has her tiny feet dangling into a lovely, purple colored pool. Artistic license on my part. Who knows what colors are inside our head? 
What inspired me was that little voice that talks to me.  It can  give me  good advice, or not.
In Sanskrit it is called the Citta Vritti, which translates to mind chatter. I think this is a universal condition, so I decided to interpret this in my medium of clay. I chose to use low fire glazes for the mood they set.
  As I  create, the more I enjoy art that makes me, and others,  smile. Then perhaps it makes us interpret things in a new way. So I would say to you as you look at my art  "What is on Your mind ? "

My Newest Handmade Book

Here is my newest hand made book that I just finished making this week. I actually started with finding and decorating the box in which it rests. Then I figured out the content. The design of the book is an accordion fold, with a turned up " pocket" on the bottom of each page. You can that in the photo.That way, you can slip in and out the different papers as you wish.There are sixteen pages in all.                       

I chose lots of color for this project. All sides of the box; the red book cloth; even the dyed porcupine  quills on the front. My paper was brown wrapping paper because that was all I had long enough for the folded pages I chose to complete in one sequence.                                            Necessity is a good teacher.                                     

The topic I chose was American Indian sign language, based on a book published in the 1920s  by William Tompkins. Growing up in the Dakota Territories, he learned to sign with his neighbors, the Sioux Indians. I took pages from the Dover edition and printed them on colorful paper, choosing words and expressions to give an introduction to another new language. I did learn the sign for book. Both hands opened flat, next to each other. So really this a book of communication. If you are interested in seeing more, you can contact me  on my blog, here in Sedona, Arizona.