Friday, August 20, 2010

Saying Good-Bye

62098H - ©1998 Alex Solla - Glaze Tectonics, untitled, 17" diameter


62098H - ©1998 Alex Solla - detail


This week, another beautiful platter sold and will be heading to Maine as soon as we get it boxed up. It is always a bittersweet separation when one of these massive platters sells. On one hand, I am thrilled that someone wants one in their home or office. The sudden cash influx certainly doesn't hurt either. But there is always some part of me that looks at the piece, one last time and realizes that I will likely never see this platter ever again.

In the case of this particular platter, it has some interesting differences that separate it from the rest of the series. For one thing, I was experimenting with a brown slip glaze around the rim. Later in the course of making these, I would only use the dark black slip for the rims. Another thing that makes this platter different from so many of the platters is that there is a rippled texture under the glaze, and due to the transparency of the fluid glaze, you can see what look almost like wave washed shoreline, under the glaze. Since I felt that this effect was so successful in this platter, I made similar efforts on quite a few platters which followed this one. None were anywhere near as successful.

And with that said, I say good-bye and good luck.

5 comments:

Brian said...

I first found your blog back in 2008 when you were showing these platters at Cornell. Just simply stunning, beautiful work.

Alex Solla said...

@Brian- Thanks for the compliments. I am serious going to miss these platters. After today they are all being boxed and crated back up. I need the space on the wall for our photography work.

Eventually I would like to find a gallery somewhere that loves these platters enough to actually promote them and get them the recognition I think they deserve. Dunno if that will ever happen though.

Anonymous said...

Dearest Alex,
Your platter is going to someone who loves it very, very much. I have redone my entire home while getting ready for it to arrive. I am going to keep it on my little table that I had when I was a child which is now our "coffee table". I wish you well in your journey and feel very blessed to have been led to finding something that seems to hold a universal beauty in its structure.

Kindest regards,
Cindy in Maine

Random Walks said...

Dearest Alex,
Your platter is going to someone who loves it very, very much. I have redone my entire home while getting ready for it to arrive. I am going to keep it on my little table that I had when I was a child which is now our "coffee table". I wish you well in your journey and feel very blessed to have been led to finding something that seems to hold a universal beauty in its structure.

Kindest regards,
Cindy in Maine

Alex Solla said...

@Cindy-

After poking my head in on your blog, I am excited to read your next postings. Your journey sounds absolutely amazing!

-Alex