The Blobs

I've been working with clay for the past five or so years and have finished four installations that work rather well, though god knows if I'll ever find a place to show them. This is the fifth and it is, perhaps, not finished.

I actually like these blobs a lot and have gone on to make quite a few more. I have not yet photographed the whole unit and can't imagine doing that right now, but you live in hope.

It doesn't particularly bother me to have made all these space-occupying "things" that have to be packed away once I get some good photographs of them. I've taken different images, some with a real camera, the Leica, in which the blobs are arranged with more space between the various tonal sections.

I've always liked process rather than product, but this is rather a bulky product and I'm getting to a point where I think that working with clay is becoming counter productive unless I can begin to show them.

To my surprise, I've had three chapbooks of poetry accepted within this same period of time, work done over many years. Maybe I just have to wait.