Last Spring

8"x8" digital photo on rag paper.

When

8"x8" digitized photo on rag paper.

The Radish Was Waiting

8"x10" digital photographic image on rag paper.

A is for Artichoke

8"x10" digital image on rag paper.

Art is Food

Bread and Puppet’s began in the 60’s and is still an active and vibrant Theater Company in Vermont. I came across a book about them after I had left New England in a Midwestern public library. I felt a kinship right away with their politics and their humor.

I had forgotten about them until I had the idea for this blog. My friend Lori mentioned their Manifesto after she visted the cyber Art Kitchen Studio the first time.

Lori is now living and making art in Vermont; she said she came across their manifesto in Kansas and that it really inspired her: “I included it in artwork I was making at the time....weird how things intersect in our lives....kinda cool.” Now she gets to go to their performances on a regular basis.

Here is a part of their manifesto:

…PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that
ART is a PRIVILEGE of the MUSEUMS & the
RICH. ART IS NOT BUSINESS!
It does not belong to banks & fancy investors
ART IS FOOD.
You can’t EAT it
BUT it FEEDS you.
ART has to be CHEAP & available to EVERYBODY.
It needs to be EVERYWHERE because it is the
INSIDE of the WORLD.
ART SOOTHES PAIN!
Art wakes up sleepers!
Art fights against war & stupidity
ART SINGS HALLELUJA
Art is for kitchens
ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD
Art is like green trees
Art is like white clouds in blue sky
ART IS CHEAP
HURRAH!!

-Bread & Puppet Glover, Vermont, 1984
www.breadandpuppet.org

Art Kitchen Guest Spot

Check out Lori Hinrichsen’s Etsy.com site: www.ChasingStillness.etsy.com She’s always been an inspiration here at the Art Kitchen, both for living well and for her art. She’s selling note card sets as well as her photography –great value and affordable gifts.

Here is her fine art website:
www.lorihinrichsen.com
Her intaglio page is new, these pieces are subtle and georgeous and also very affordable original artwork.

Digital Art Kitchen

"When I Was Sure"
8"x10" digital image on rag paper.

Thai Noodle Bowls

Every Art Kitchen needs tableware. These bowls are wheel thrown domestic porcelain. I am new to working with porcelain, it is more like cream cheese than stoneware clay. This shape of bowl was very pleasing to make and they have a nice deep foot. I love them for noodle dishes and Thai salads.

The glaze on the inside is Wert Trap Shino over Oatmeal and the outside is Michael Davis Shino over VC Celadon, with a little VC Celadon on the rim.

The whole combination makes the MD Shino colorize the cold wax brush strokes to orange on the outside. The VC celadon slides down inside and makes a crackle green celadon in the base possibly because of the WT Shino on the inside. The black is from the MD Shino/VC Celadon combination.

Art Kitchen Try Outs

This weeks audition is of my zen cups, they are whiteware domestic porcelain made with slab construction. I can work on these in a small space at home. Each cup and shape are smoothed and burnished by hand over a period of days.



They are soothing to contemplate, noticing the push pull between uniformity and balance of form and the imperfections of delicate cracks and folds.


The porcelain shapes have an incomplete and vague vegetable shape. I hope to get sometime this year to try some larger slab bowls with glaze.