Ceramic art by Debra Fleury
“While growing up near the ocean, I spent many hours peering at tiny creatures and looking for clues to their secret lives. This began a lifelong passion for the the minute details, the battered fragments, and the myriad patterns of organic life… Clay is critical to exploring these ideas. Touching clay and responding to its organic properties are key aspects of my largely exploratory and intuitive creative process. Risk taking and pushing materials to their limits is also important. I experiment with the forces used to shape clay, glaze, and glass as a process for imagining and exploring the effects of natural forces. I combine clays with glass or other materials to see what they reveal about their individual properties when they are fused together.”
Malcolm T Liepke (born 1953) American, attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and has, in the last decade, established himself as a leading contributor in today’s resurgence of figurative painting. Bold brushstrokes, rich buttery surfaces and most importantly, the timeless humanity of his classically inspired imagery have been heralded in successful one-man exhibitions around the world. Mr. Liepke’ works are in the collections of both the Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian Museum, as well as many prestigious private collections.
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during intercourse, embrace him and softly whisper “are you feeling it mr. krabs?
On the other side of a mirror there’s an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.
And in the evening the sun is just rising.
Lovers cry because they are a day younger, and soon childhood robs them of their pleasure.
In such a world there is much sadness which, of course, is joy …
-Russell Edson, “Antimatter”
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), with his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (1900-1948), date unknown.