Round Table

Round table postcard, Moher cliffs, Eire. Family correspondence sent from Liscannor, Clare to Townsville, Queensland, early 1900's.

Round table place, Cliffs of Moher, Clare, May 2008. 

Metal ties of the table are still in the flagstone platform. 

Cumulus 2008, 100 porcelain beakers on a round table. 

Work in progress, September 2008.

Woonjeegaribay Highlands, New South Wales; 

paddock to peat wetland and dam.

Why so soon, Dorothy?

Dorothy Porter, eminent Australian poet, 1954 - 2008.

"Let's talk death, can't we be friends?"

Too soon, Dorothy.  

Thanks for your 

lucid courage. 

Fluid time +

Liscannor five, 2008

Translucent porcelain, glazes, including an ash glaze made from the wood of wind and wombat-felled eucalypts in home paddocks, and burnt over the 2008 winter in a wood-burner for warmth in the house. Wombats are brilliant excavators and their burrowed home tunnels undercut the root sysytems of old gum and bloodwood trees. With strong winds to gales on the Woonjeegaribay highlands, these fall in paddock and remnant forest. One large old paddock gum has provided years of firewood after falling, and its root base is still the scaffolding of a burrow system. It has, in turn, provided natural re-seeding of its immediate area, and a new ash glaze, which over the last few months has begun to reveal itself.