primalmommy@IVILLAGE.COM on mon 18 feb 02
He was showing slides of his work, talking about his life and work, and the lecture hall was standing-room-only. Cigar in one hand, cocktail in the other, he clicked to a slide of a large, sculptural work, with jagged attachments around the upper edge. "This one is called "Jesus Christ", he said. The audience sat there in the dark for a while, studying the piece, each of us trying to work out the religious symbolism: a crown of thorns, maybe? Or a more abstract concept?
Then Voulkos took a breath and said, "It used to sit in the front hallway of my house. Every time I'd come in the door, I'd run into the thing and say, "Jesus Christ!"
Yours, Kelly from Ohio
(enjoying these stories... and excited about what can happen when a community becomes a force. I get so excited, go off babbling to my family about a kiln in guatemala, a clayarters clay formula, a syllabus exchange... they are very good about nodding and pretending to know (or care) what I'm talking about...)
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