‘sound of a dragonfly wing at rest’

Fundy Mud Pottery, of local clay, is closed for the season.  Now 70, I retired from our little farmers market after 7 years to return to my garden, forestry, and construction projects.  in 2024, selling just a limited number of tea bowls at Cape Enrage and Studio on the Marsh, submitting work and a couple collaborations to a show or 2.  My main kiln was finally destroyed by Fundy Mud’s caustic vapors, leaving me facing significant rebuild costs.  

So I hacked junked kiln parts and electronics toward a cone 10 FrankenKiln specific for a final line of t-bowls – now using it to test fire porcelain and scrap glass mixes especially.  If I do make a small comeback, it will be up from this rust and ashes.  Meantime, I’m collecting, repairing dead kilns and broken wheels for the pottery poor.  

 A Harvey Hall Flute gig is coming for my shakuhachi, and I see rav and shakuhachi engagements on the horizon.

Had a multi-garbage art piece in Mario’s environmental residency show titled ‘Reflection,’  of scrap glass, ambulance and kitchen trash… it’s looking for another show.  

Last year I was incorporating woven natural materials, shells and jewelry in my pots, they moved far out into the world. There is a blessing you receive when providing gifts selected by strangers to the love of others you cannot know.

People still enjoy this Fundy Mud ‘wild clay’ gathering and processing music video, I reference it as a wild clay instructable: 

Still playing art events, giving away video backing tracks on Jampan Music Download. 

So far, I still partner with CLIMATE ART WEB and the NB Conservation Council Harm To Harmony art group… with perhaps another ceramic org concern coming.   

Lately recorded the music/video Curryville Forest Funeral youtube video with poet Ramneet overdub.        

A solar ‘small home,’ of recycled materials.  It’s now my garden construction shack for the garden and greenhouse build at the beaver pond.      

       email at Fundymudpottery@gmail.com