Ceramics and Textiles at Sharon Art Studio

Over to San Francisco for the ceramics and textiles show at Sharon Art Studio in Golden Gate Park. Two long glass cases of pots — raku pieces mostly, crackle glazes in black and white, tall narrow bottles, a few little cups tucked in among them. Some of the vessels barely held to being vessels at all, more like slabs with an opening added as an afterthought.

The piece I kept coming back to was a tile mosaic of a windblown tree with a moon behind it, all the sections cut apart and fitted back together like a stained glass window done in clay. There was another relief panel nearby with a covered bridge worked into a small circle in the middle, buried in layers of texture — you had to stand close to even find it.

The quilts were the other half. One huge one in greens and reds, hundreds of strips like standing in a stand of trees, and a paler one where the color only showed up in patches through all the white and cream. Somebody put real hours into those.

Walked out past a watercolor of a dory tied up at a pier and almost bought it.