PHOTO AND COLORS

I have tried to present the website images as accurately as my technology will permit. The actual pieces may deviate slightly in color. Ceramic work is extremely difficult to photograph due to the reflections on the glazes as well as the fact that most pieces have multiple sides or views. A single view never does justice to the whole piece. In the near future, I plan to video some pieces on a slow moving turntable to get maximum visibility. Still, some pieces need to be seen from the top looking down, or bottom looking up, or the inside looking out. A total shot (spherical) is impossible at this stage of my knowledge of technology.

I have been photographing ceramics for over 40 years and am still learning. It's all a part of the process. Have mercy on my efforts. Thanks.   -Palul

ANOTHER LIFETIME

 

I am now in my seventies. You can do a lot in seventy years. When I reach ninety, I'll have had another whole lifetime! What will it bring?

Science and art, the big divisions of academics, have been driving forces all my life. What a gift to have a foot in both worlds!  For years I traveled along life's paths sampling this and that with no particular goals or purpose other than new experiences. 

I was 30 when I first experienced the wonders of clay. I immediately realized that this was the connection between art and science that made me feel whole. (Well, almost whole. I still had issues with relationships, a more complicated subject if ever there was one. But I'm starting to get it. Probably it'll take another whole lifetime to get it near perfection.)

Being allotted one lifetime, the subject of TIME  and it's personal meaning becomes a consuming issue. How to get enough time to accomplish all the ideas that run through my mind? Now I remember: that's what another lifetime's for!

Conveniently, the Internet, the Great Octopus Time Saver, with all its wonders and aggravations, has provided another lifetime to express myself to anyone interested in hearing what I have to say. Thus the blog begins….

ART and SCIENCE

Over the years I've had two callings. Laboratories and studios, test tubes and paint brushes. I consider myself very fortunate to live in both worlds. Eventually I found they were one world.  Science is the objective or the technical part of art. Art is the subjective or inspirational part of science.

True science contains art; true art contains science. They work together like two wings on a bird. You fly around in circles if you only use one wing. You need them both in order to fly.