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Posted by Farid (Moderator) - Thursday, December 11 2003, 17:45:35 (EST)
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Work progresses slowly. For reasons too difficult and boring to explain I wound up having to carve on fired ceramic. Nobody carves on fired ceramic. It is an abrasive. It wears away anything. The file I've been using...that's meant for stone, fer hevvin's sake, has been worn smooth and shiny and is now a sharp knife blade. But there was no other way. I have to define each raised line better...make it thinner, finer and the curves and straight lines truer. It's the first job of the morning...after writing. A couple of hours each day and we'll get there eventually. About a third of it is done.

When it's finished I'll take it to the best mould maker in Dolores...carefully. I've already spent 150 hours carving it...holding it against my chest or on my lap cradled between my thighs. I keep thinking, "what if it slips from my hand one of these hours"? So I put a pillow on the floor below where I'm holding it, just in case. Leaving it with the mould-maker is going to be hard...what if he drops it? I have a few others, but no way do I want to start carving all over again. This is where you trust your Muse.

I've gotten a little ahead of myself imagining the packaging...also very important. It should be a nice but sort of crude box...something you might ship an antique in back in 1930. They make some rough looking cardboard boxes here...hand made...lid and all that would be just right. There are all sorts of colors of tissue to stuff around it so that's no problem.

That leaves the issue of the card...the one that's going to describe the piece itself...what it's a copy of, where the original is...the people who made the original, things like that. The card also has to be a bit "earthy" I would think...but what to say on it about us? This is where "history" is made or made up. Who's going to argue with me? I mean there isn't a store anywhere that's going to give the information on the card a second thought, as in..."are you sure Turyoyo is the same as Buryoyo"? See why it's so important to get out there in the world?

I've been imagining different versions of our history and trying to guage the impact on the person who buys the vase...takes it home or gives it as a gift. The box is openned...the vase carefully removed...the tissue pushed aside. Maybe it's put somewhere special right away...or held and turned in the hands. The card might be tied round the neck with a nice gold elastic or ribbon...or placed inside. The card will be tan and earthy too...with the Lotus Design maybe on the front in color. A pretty thing it can be all by itself. Then it's openned and the happy customer or recipient reads...

GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!
ASSYRIV POR ASSYRIANS. WE WUZ HERE FRIST! IF Q_ _ _ S TINK THEY TAKE GOVERNMENT IS CRAZY. CHRISTIANS COME TO BETNAHRAIN FIRST TIME! BUT thEY RAPE US AND KILL CHILDrenS! WHAT YOU TINK?...THEY ARE TRAITORS LIKE SADDAM WAS! BUT ALWAYS WE WAS FOR JESUS CHRIST! ENJOY THIS THING made BY GREAT ASSYRIANS NATION BEFORE WE FinD JESUS CHRIST!!%

That ought to do it well enough.

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