“Children Playing” is a recurrent theme in Chinese painting and ceramics. In practise children love playing with boxes, and they stand as a metaphor for the expectations and restraints of later life.
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Three friends of winter
GRAAL BLOWOUT
Tremendous day at http://philip-stokes-studio-glass.myshopify.com/ blowing out the two graal pieces I had engraved. Sunlight streaming through the windows made for some great pictures. It all went very well, and I pick up Friday, photograph on the weekend.
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Two new graal embryo ready to be blown
Finished engraving two new graal pieces. They will go into traditional chinese porcelain shapes probably next week. “Three old friends of winter” into mei ping shape, and “Children playing, with boxes” into a topless jar shape.
Contact http://www.philipstokesstudioglass.com.au/art_glass/art_glass.htm for times if you’d like to see them blown out. It’s exciting.
probably 21 oct in the morning.
