Thank you to EVERYONE who made The Massive Annual Holiday Sale a complete success……I really appreciate all of your appreciation of my work. It is always so wonderful to come out of the artist isolation tank and see your beautiful faces and hear your beautiful voices…… Mom doing the drawing! The rain troopers Mom, Dianne […]
Entries by Teal Rowe
November 5, 2011
Looking forward to seeing everyone’s beautiful face here: And if you can’t read this tiny writing…..email me at teal@tealrowe.com and I will send you a version that you CAN read. I will also enter your name into a drawing for a spectacular piece that I will pick on Sunday Nov. 20 @ 4:00.
New work on the way. Getting ready for Show/Sale November 19 & 20- 11am to 4pm Me, shaping glass at the bench
Balls to the Walls
Blow Pipes and Puntys in pipe warmer The ends of the pipes are perfect at an orange glow….not too yellow, not too red. Today was a “balls to the walls” (B2W) kind of day in the studio. Big macho energy….mine. Big fresh ideas….mine. My B2W attitude brings me more of what I […]
Glass
Today I blew glass. I sculpted glass too. Heavy. Hot. Massive equipment using huge amounts of electricity and gas. I struggled with the newness of the environment, the different temperature and quality of the glass, the heaviness of the annealer door, the furnace door too. The height of the marver, the […]
Bates Beach
With the urgency of the surfers running down the steps racing out to huge, loud, tubular waves. As the chill of the Pacific cuts against my shins. I turn my back to the sun and excitement and feel a deep familiarity rise up through the shadow cast before me. The hang of […]
One Hand and The Other
To be here -present- in my breath feels a luxury to me on one hand and on the other……The other hand, muscular from use -strong. The one willing to reach out to the wild horse. The one that can snap it’s fingers crisply and sharply without thought. The one that gets “R” done. On that […]
An Added Kick To Life
Some dogs show me a part of their personality with the kick of their back leg. Maybe it’s not exactly the “personality” they are showing.As I follow a dog on the trail I notice the right side of the back kick of its leg is a bit askew from the direct kick of the left. […]
Today
There is an agitated buzz pulling me. I’m not going.
Good Morning
I realize I would much rather read someone else’s story than write my own. Why is that? I don’t want to touch upon my own unrealized, unactualized. My own story seems like a responsibility. To feel it. To write it. To stand behind it. And then I think I have to answer for it. What […]