Night and Day Yellow Blue Bowl by Michael W. Moses, Ocean Springs, MS

 

Oh, do I have egg on my face. I have been telling people for a fairly long time that not a single person in Ocean Springs, MS. where our shop is located, owns a piece of my pottery. I have just found out that I have been misinforming people. I sold two pieces of my art pottery this afternoon my Red White Mellon Bowl  and my Dark Rainbow Tea Cup. As I was logging them into my inventory files where I keep images of each piece that I make along with it's unique designator serial number, and who purchased it, I made a surprise discovery. I saw this Blue Yellow Fossil covered work that I called, Night and Day Yellow Blue Bowl  This is a piece that I made a couple of years back. The inside and outside is completely hand carved. The inside is blue on yellow and the out side is yellow on blue. I just saw that it was sold a bit over a year ago and that it had been sold to a customer that only lives a few streets away from our shop. Oops!  I guess one person in town here has purchased one of my pieces. They made a good choice in my opinion. It was a bowl that I was quite pleased with. Also note that it of course has one red herring on it!

Here are a few images of some pieces that I created and sold a few years back at my South Coast Antiques & Gallery here in downtown Ocean Springs, MS.

Ritually Killed Alien Artifact Bowl by Michael W. Moses

Ritually Killed Alien Artifact Bowl by Michael W. Moses

Many ancient cultures here on our Earth have "ritually killed" offerings to a temple, or grave goods to prevent the object from being reused by other living people and in some cases to kill the spirit of the object being sacrificed. The most common way that this ritual killing of the object occurred was by simply punching a hole through the object as with the pottery of the Mimbres Culture in the southwestern corner of New Mexico. Another ancient group that apparently practiced ritually killing of offerings was the Jomon in Japan. The Jomon created terra cotta figures known as Dogu, that they broke on purpose and buried. From these ideas I have over the years created a number of ritually killed alien artifacts. It only seems plausible in my mind that if one were to study ancient cultures on other planets that things like this would be discovered among their ancient ruins and among private and public collections on their worlds.

Red Blue Sponge Bowl by Michael W. Moses

Blue Sponge Bowl by Michael W. Moses

Kristin Holeman Cloisonné Jewelry 2011 Pensacola Arts Festival

One of the prize winners at the 2011 Pensacola Museum of Art's, Art in the Park, Arts Festival was Kristin Holeman. She creates some of the best quality and well designed jewelry that I have seen in a while. She has a quirky, whimsical take on jewelry that makes her work truly one of a kind. One has to admire her jewels for the shear amount of work that she puts into each piece. Unfortunately there is not much online information about her and her jewelry. She has a website Kristin Holeman Cloisonné, but it is a bit lax on information and images of her spectacular pieces. Here are a few images that she has supplied and a couple that I have taken myself.

The Smell of Carrion is in the Air! My Stapelia Gigantea is in bloom!

Well, it is that time of year and the hideous stench of week old dead elephant fills the air! My carrion flower (Stapelia gigantea) is in bloom. The flower was over 12 inches from the point of one petal across to the next! It is a magical blossom and this particular one of these plants really does not have a very strong fragrance.  I have had them in the past that were so bad that the stench could over power and gag one.The flies just love them.

Stapelia gigantea - Carrion Flower

This giant flower only lasts one day, but it is just such a cool plant to have. For more information about this plant go to Plant of the Week.

Tyler Gibson's latest work of cramic art pottery

Here is a new work by my student, Tyler Gibson.  He has entitled this creation "Tongue Kiss This".  He has been studying with me for a very short period and as I knew well before he started, that he would have a real knack for creating great pieces. Under my minimal guidance he is progressing rapidly.  He is taking a break over the summer months though and is currently in Vicksburg, Mississippi, working as an historical interpreter at the Vicksburg National Military Park . He is working in historical clothing, braving the heat in extremely uncomfortable war between the states period wool, educating the visiting public about  the Battle of Vicksburg, waged from May 18 to July 4, 1863. In my opinion even though the weather is exceptionaly hot this is a very cool summer job. Tyler is a student of history, specializing in the Civil War and WWII eras. But he is doing continued reasarch into the theory of pottery, techniques, and the concepts of what makes a piece good, with of course a lot of emphisis on quality. He took a block of clay with him and has said that he will be making further pieces as he gets free time from his work. I am rather anxious to see what he will be producing!

Inside the Egg a new Ceramic Art Pottery Bowl By Michael W. Moses

 This is my latest bowl, which I have titled "Inside the Egg".  This is one of my ancient alien artifact bowls.  It was designed to give the viewer a glimps into what an artifact from another world that has long passed might look like. It was designed with the exterior being all shiny and smooth and the interior being a more rough, matte finish.

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This is what the inside looked like after I painted it, but before it was fired.

 

This is what the inside looked like after it was fired.

 

This is the outside after it was painted and the glaze coat was applied.

  

The outside after it was fired.

This bowl is now available and can be viewed at

South Coast Antiques & Gallery

in Ocean Springs, MS