Trying to keep in mind the welcoming speech to Haystack Mt School of Crafts, given by Howard Evans, back in the mid 1980s. 'No matter what it is that you think you came for, he advised us, 'that is not what you are going to get. So keep an open mind…' And he invited us to be aware of and to embrace what unfolds.
This one seems to be drying safely; but the wings of several of my 'angels' are cracking away from their clay bodies. The clay is drying too fast in this mountain air? My joining techniques are not strong enough? Maybe forms with such extensions are too delicate anyway to be transporting in a box on my lap, in a car to the kiln which is two blocks away…?
Maybe these 'Mountain Phoenixes' don't want to have their wings unfolded?
One visitor suggested that since the altitude is so high here, perhaps angels have a chance to rest their wings!
Another visitor thought that perhaps there are times when 'a cigar is just a cigar'; and there may be no hidden meaning to an angel losing her wings….
And when one visitor asked if the wings were an 'add-on' or part of the original piece of clay that is wrapped around my cardboard tube, it sparked the idea for an alternative construction technique.
So I am off to the clay bag, to try this… And wings unfurled may still be possible
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