Steven Colby: potter

(t)here is the great earth…

Published February 22, 2016 here is the great earth , Uncategorized 2 Comments
Tags: here is the great earth, tantra is everywhere, who knows ware

cup&saucer

thanks for visiting my corner of the internet. this old site is all fulls up. i’ve moved my blogging practice over to https://hereisthegreatearth.wordpress.com

please click over – you’ll find new pots, old pots, wet pots, broke pots and the usual menagerie of inspirations that make me make the work.

all my best,

steven

‘Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.’~George Santayana.

Published February 26, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

Qiu Zhijie
(Chinese, 1969)
Heart Sutra
2001

ink on paper

more on the artists website: http://www.qiuzhijie.com/worksleibie/calligraphy/e-xinjing.htm

Vespers…

Published February 20, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

when it’s over…

Published February 14, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

The Bangles
Syria Mosque Arena
Pittsburgh, PA; 1986

font

metta

tortoise bowl

kurt

thistle w. Budai

iron lamp w. tealight ~ china

houston

sarvangasana

thegood’olgratefuldead

jug by виолета керемидчиева ~from the Orr studio collection

DFW

italy

for whatever reason –

Published February 10, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

i assumed the capacity of this weBlog was something near the infinite. (how could we run into the end of cyberspace?)

but – it seems – WordPress has it’s limits and/or (at 6or7 years in – wants some $$$).

so fresh images will not be forthcoming on this platform.

&butso –

this evening

yawl get a new old poem from the pen of E.D.

& a selection of old images that the platform allows for republication –

+ the previous prose that have been recently endangered in these parts:

——

‘Apology for Her
Be rendered by the Bee
Herself, without a Parliament
Apology for Me’

~Dickenson

——

this night pierces me like a sword

the worst part

it’snotevenfair – or’ourWorld&ourReality’

Published February 9, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

experiencingloss –

backingup on DFW for myriad reasons tonite. what i’ve always appreciated about David’s life was his commitment to an effort toward ‘T’rue sincerity (w/style). A heart as well as a mind @WORK…: