FORM AND FUNCTION: WE ARE THE VESSEL
We are the vessel of what we know. We are the open form that gets poured into by the Universe, by our environment, by one another. We are the vessel of creative life whatever shape that takes up.
We are the vessel in which imagination takes form. We shape our needs, we create our objects… whether useful or harmful, refined or raw, open or closed…. they all come out of the emptiness of being, each a gift coming into existence.
This exhibition of weaving and pottery represents different places and times. And the three collections have their own stories to tell from the Tea Bowls by Jeanne Claire Bisson of Romulus Craft, Washington, VT and the Rug Weavings by Diane Elliott Gayer, Burlington, VT to the 1940s collection of Clay Pots from the Southwest.
Each is an accumulation of knowledge, technique, and spirit. Each is an embodiment of the world from which it arose. Each carries overt and subtle meaning from the fibers found in each weaving to the clay used in each pot. The clays, pigments, shapes, patterns, firings, finishes, and actually uses affect the energy contained by each piece whether weaving or pottery.
Form and Function: we are the Vessel.
