Rick on wed 11 aug 04
Culture and custom parade past my studio. Up the hill and out of sight
around the curve in the road there is a cemetery. It's been carved out
of the side of a hill, terraced and rowed. Visitors, who will become
future residents, park at the bottom of the hill and trudge their way
up the terrace until reaching the row where the spirits of their
ancestors reside. Several visits a year keep the grave sites neat and
clean. The age of the visitors often sets the time one tarries; the
older the longer, the younger, the more impatient. Impatient to get on
with the business of living.
Outside my studio window a lone lily plant has grown. Its seed,
borne here on the wind or dropped by and insect took root. It grows
set within a triangle of bamboo. The white bell shaped flowers
contrast sharply with the greenness everywhere surrounding it.
The just thrown large "V" shaped bowl/vase that sits damp and
drying would be a proper vessel to display a flower arrangement
containing that beautiful lily plant. But it will have long drooped,
wilted and faded back to the earth by the time the bowl/vase is a ready
vessel. Perhaps I threw it as a memorial to the lily plant which took
root, bloomed, and now will quickly and quietly return to the earth.
I'll inscribe it "To a Lily."
Rick
Ann Brink on wed 11 aug 04
Rick- In the future, whenever I make a V-shaped bowl, I will remember your
letter describing your surroundings, the lily, and the connection you felt,
and made me feel, with both the beauty and transience of life.
Ann Brink in Lompoc CALIF
> Culture and custom parade past my studio. Up the hill and out of sight
> around the curve in the road there is a cemetery. It's been carved out
> of the side of a hill, terraced and rowed. Visitors, who will become
> future residents, park at the bottom of the hill and trudge their way
> up the terrace until reaching the row where the spirits of their
> ancestors reside. Several visits a year keep the grave sites neat and
> clean. The age of the visitors often sets the time one tarries; the
> older the longer, the younger, the more impatient. Impatient to get on
> with the business of living.
> Outside my studio window a lone lily plant has grown. Its seed,
> borne here on the wind or dropped by and insect took root. It grows
> set within a triangle of bamboo. The white bell shaped flowers
> contrast sharply with the greenness everywhere surrounding it.
> The just thrown large "V" shaped bowl/vase that sits damp and
> drying would be a proper vessel to display a flower arrangement
> containing that beautiful lily plant. But it will have long drooped,
> wilted and faded back to the earth by the time the bowl/vase is a ready
> vessel. Perhaps I threw it as a memorial to the lily plant which took
> root, bloomed, and now will quickly and quietly return to the earth.
> I'll inscribe it "To a Lily."
>
> Rick
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