{"id":904,"date":"2008-09-15T23:42:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T04:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=904"},"modified":"2018-11-12T03:34:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T22:34:10","slug":"zenish-with-tactile-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/zenish-with-tactile-rewards\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenish&#8230; with tactile rewards."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/zenish_1_evelin_richter.jpg\" alt=\"zenish_1_evelin_richter.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/zenish_2_evelin_richter.jpg\" alt=\"zenish_2_evelin_richter.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/zenish_5_evelin_richter1.jpg\" alt=\"zenish_5_evelin_richter1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg Beach, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the past few weeks I\u2019ve enjoyed collaborating with ceramist Evelin Richter (my girlfriend) in the creation of a series of pieces that combine stoneware vessels (thrown by Ev) with beach findings (bits of coral, pebbles, etc.). A selection of these works\u2014which we\u2019ve called \u201cZenish\u201d <em>(approaching \u201czen,\u201d but perhaps more accurately \u201cwabi-sabi\u201d)<\/em>\u2014is now on exhibit at the <em>Fishfly Gallery<\/em> in Winnipeg Beach. I\u2019ve always been an intensely <em>visual<\/em> person, and so am very happy to be experiencing tactility (better late than never, methinks) through the haptic art-form of ceramics.<\/p>\n<p>As Ev puts it, <em>\u201cThese pieces were an exercise in contemplation\u2014combining natural findings with man-made form\u2026 the tactile end-results were surprisingly rewarding to mind and spirit\u2026\u201d <\/em>You can see more of Ev\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/whatclayart.com\/the-works\/\" target=\"_blank\">works<\/a> on her new website (designed at Circle and which launched this past weekend) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatclayart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Images: <\/em>Zenish<em>; generous thrown stoneware basins (200mm to 250mm \u00d8) fused with merged beach findings; some low-fired to Cone 04 with burnished steel glaze, others wood-fired to Cone 12+ (unglazed, but flame-kissed with warm blushes and ash).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Beach, Canada During the past few weeks I\u2019ve enjoyed collaborating with ceramist Evelin Richter (my girlfriend) in the creation of a series of pieces that combine stoneware vessels (thrown by Ev) with beach findings (bits of coral, pebbles, etc.). A selection of these works\u2014which we\u2019ve called \u201cZenish\u201d (approaching \u201czen,\u201d but perhaps more accurately \u201cwabi-sabi\u201d)\u2014is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,10,11,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16777,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/16777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}