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birch porcelain vessels

I will wait for the birch wood

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Birch is the first tree to colonise cleared ground in ecological succession – at least in most of the UK (followed often by oak). The leaves are covered with small […]

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text threads

July 11, 2014by carys davies Leave a comment

I was writing about text threads last week – the online kind, where a conversation gets linked together by a virtual thread. The metaphor of threading‘s pretty universal: used in […]

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writing like Freud

June 6, 2014by carys davies Leave a comment

I do love words, text, writing, fonts. There’s something about the synthesis of form and content that’s very rich. It’s also something that we all do, that works from the […]

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Sonnet 130 Shakespeare

shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

July 19, 2013by carys davies Leave a comment

For a change, I’ve been working on paper this week, writing Shakespeare love sonnets for a private client. So many sonnets are bitter, though: I was reminded how nothing is […]

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pots in a tomb at West Norwood Cemetery

hanging around cemeteries in the dark

June 21, 2013by carys davies Leave a comment

Tonight’s the opening of the West Norwood Curious Trail: 6-9pm then at the nearby Portico Gallery until 10:30pm. I’m looking forward to being there in the dumb living twilight, with […]

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porcelain with names inscribed

‘still falls the rain’ at the Curious Trail

May 31, 2013by carys davies Leave a comment

I’m making my installation for this tomb in West Norwood Cemetery on the Curious Trail. In the ledgers held there, I found two sisters, Sophi and Christine Zinopoulos, who lived […]

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porcelain pot

the foam as still as milk….

February 8, 2013by carys davies 5 Comments

The fantastic Sussie Ahlburg has come through with fantastic images of my Llyr Lewis pots. I think this one is my favourite – the line in the poem is: “Ond […]

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image of inside of new kiln

new year, new kiln

January 25, 2013by carys davies 7 Comments

I managed to buy a kiln just before Christmas, through the extremely helpful Kevin Sparrow. It’s a lot more complicated buying these than you might think: there’s at least five […]

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calligraphy from Hamlet

let it snow, and shakespeare

December 7, 2012by carys davies 2 Comments

If you normally read posts on email, can I recommend just this once you click on the header and read the post online? WordPress have made it snow on the […]

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fired paper clay test with writing

exploring paper and clay…

October 12, 2012by carys davies 2 Comments

After writing on paper and on clay, I thought I’d try some hybrids as an experiment. Clay’s used in paper to make it white and smooth, paper’s used in clay […]

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