I'm god and a priest with the ability to create life

I knew it. There's more to this Golem myth than you might have expected. God may not excactly have sculpted Adam out of clay as is told in Talmudic and Abrahamic legends. The process seems to have been a bit more chemical, but still we might have our origins in clay. Being a clay artist suddenly makes a spiritual sense to and I will have to rethink my approach to the ceramic material. I'm god and a priest with the ability to create life. People should worship me as a performer of the holyest of all professions.

I will be able to make a living clay Golem without using rituals, gods name on small paper notes, blood or the hebrew words of life and death. If I don't fire my raw Golem sculpture I just have to wait long enough, letting the chemical processes grow and then - he/she/it will take his first step and walk away.

Read the article here.

Studioimage

I wonder if this fits in the idea of being a vase or a pot. Not yet finished, I think I'm gonna paint something on it.

Tim Burtons original short film Frankenwennie from 1984

The animated 2012 Frankenwennie film is a remake of Tim Burtons own shortfilm from 1984. Both movies are great and beautiful. The story, a homage to the old Frankenstein story, is about a boy trying, and succeeding, in waking his dead pet dog alive. As in the old story the dog is not an evil monster though people he encouters in the story threatens to make him one. There is a beautiful little ending in this one though that make me smile all the way up to my ears.

Christmas present?

Saw this version of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein with some clay included so you can sculpt your own monster. I don't know, but there should be a version with clay included of Meyrinks Golem also. He/she/it is at least made of clay while Frankenstein is made of human bodyparts. Hmmm, they didn't want to include bodyparts - a bit to messy I guess, and probably against the law.

Golem and the princess bowl

This is where the beautiful white princess is molested the by the red Golem clay, almost falling over but still on her feet because she has three strong supports holding her up. Still raw and unfired and there will be a glaze on the bowl, hopefully a crystal glaze, but with ceramics you never know how it will come out after firing. It can, or will probably crack and the glaze may be a total failure so the story of this one is still to be continued. 

Just another bowl

Another studio image of a bowl I made. Handbuilt, still unfired, thumbed, about 15 cm high, but this time I've worked on the finish of it in a I way usually don't. Scraping, polishing and removing all the fingerprints I usually leave as a signum of my work. I call it a princess bowl, but in this picture it's not finished yet! Right now it's just another bowl - but I have plans for it! 

To be continued... 

Pot, cup and plate

Some studio images. Maybe unusual for me handbuilding (sculpting) pots and cups again. Both are still raw and unfired, The pot on is ready as it is but kind of frozen in the process of coiling without smoothing out the last attached coil.