2004.3 - OCTOPUS TEAPOT

This is not a serious piece either, but I always liked it. It’s always sad though when the attachments break off as the legs did with this piece. However, as the Queen of Epoxy, I’m always ready.

I have a sculpture of a grasshopper that came from a Vietnamese shop in town. I think the body is made of bamboo root, and the legs are made of small bamboo twigs. The tiny branches splay into feet, and the back legs are long twigs that are broken in the middle to depict the joint. I bought it because I think it is really graceful, and contains the essence of a grasshopper, if that is possible.

My husband, David, walked by it today and remarked that it needed gluing since the back left leg broke at the bend. I mentioned that it really wasn’t meant to be permanent, but that I liked it. It made me think about my Octopus Teapot. I’m not sure whether or not I expect my non-serious work to be permanent. It is low fire clay, and therefore soft, but the amphorae that are being dredged up in the Mediterranean are also low fire clay, and they’re really old. Sometimes I think about someone finding one of my sculptures a thousand years from now and seeing Lisa 2004. I wonder if my sculpture is an attempt at immortality, but maybe I’m better off relying on my kids.