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RECENT WORK - RAKU
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"Ivory Spoon"
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Sand patterns make fire "visible". Fire creates nuanced spatial depth and tonal gradations on the clay surface.
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This is an ethereal imprint of a spoon in the sand. I model the sand interface as a pattern of carbon (smoke) resist. The dune-like sand evokes natural wonders such as the Great Sand Dunes of Colorado.
![Dorinsky-Sand Dune Raku](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/be66c0_8058b11af0dd4c54aff342c6bae03e74.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_110,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/be66c0_8058b11af0dd4c54aff342c6bae03e74.jpg)
The sand dune or "prepared sand" is similar in concept to John Cage's "prepared piano". I do not know in advance how the various realities of light and tone will align themselves. They simply interact.
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A "spoon" is a dream. It is a meditation on space and light.
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A "Spoon" is a rendezvous where glaze, gradations and shadows meet.
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"No Mind Boundaries"- The broken patterns of the glazed wood grain are echoed by the splashes of carbon in the bare clay margin. The mat black background abuts a gloss black field.
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Gradational shadows bound toward a dual void.
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My work deals with the perception of light within the confines of the picture plane.
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