Yesterday, I had a surprise visit from two people that collect my pottery. We had a good long chat and got caught up on many different things in our lives, being that it had been a couple of years since we had seen each other. Well, to make a long story short one of them bought three piece of my ceramic art pottery to add to her growing collection.
The first piece was a very nice spike covered pod vase. I call this piece "A Sip of Nektar". The spikes are all glazed in a wonderful dark lustrous metallic that jump out from a rich sky blue color and has a a striking organic green interior. there is a single mottled red tendril groping out from one side, handle like.
The second piece was a pod vase with a dragon like reptilian creature on the side. A bright orange pod vase with a multitude of individually hand painted light blue dots basks in the bright tropical sunlight while the small hunter sits beside it on a blue and brownish rock quietly waiting for a tastier snack than an orange pod vase to make it's self available for a fast lunch.
The third piece, and I think it was a great choice, was the "Alien Nafaar Unguentarium"
This Alien Nafaar unguentarium is a highly detailed ceramic art pottery lidded jar or bottle depending on how you might look at it. This hand sculpted vessel has an abundance of almost glowing green spikes, an almost aubergine purple-red mini bulb vase and features intricately hand painted alien images and calligraphic inscriptions.
Pieces showing images of the Nafaar are rather uncommon here on Earth. Most pieces are from the area of the Pleiades star cluster and many will even predate the existence of Earth itself. This piece is more than likely from Darhlis Denarbith and appears to be from the early Deknerg culture, judging from the inscription. Being an early Deknerg inscription there is little chance of an accurate translation, being as there is so little information on the earliest of their scripts. The writing is more than likely a dedication involving the archetypal story of the last of the Nafaar and the end of their world. An highly romanticized fable dealing with the atrophic end of a vastly ancient master civilization that withered from a planet wide moral and social malaise. A story that even in our own time we all know well.
This translated poem from a late digicript reproduction taken directly from Darhlis Denarbith is well known among the worlds of the Pleiades and far beyond.
On vast Shayvar the suns have set
Time before before
Such sadness is the lands regret
Eons times adore
The Nafaar Sits at Evening tide.
Dreaming of the day
When all their dreams will come to be
Sorrows swept away
The red sky burns upon the land
Hot pink sands of time
Much hotter than poor souls could stand
Even in their prime
The Nafaar's world has come to end
Their world has been slain
And now I tell you this my friend
Nor to rise again
Now back to reality for a moment.
It is always nice when I sell a piece of my ceramic art pottery, but it always seems even nicer when I sell to one of the people that collect my art works. Many thanks to this collector and also to all the other people that have supported me over the years in my many creative endeavors.
