The Art of Charles Pilkey

WATER

The embryonic fluid from which clay is twice born. In the mountains, the patient pounding by water transforms feldspathic stone into clay minerals. In the studio, the wet hands of the impatient potter, changes clay into form, idea into its material expression and occasionally mud into masterpiece.

Lizard  Car  painted clay  20" long

Technozoic Lizard    painted clay  40" long

Babylon   terracotta 6' 8" high Eskisehir, Turkey

The Sons of Martha   clay  5' high

Tower clay  6' high

Bird man    clay 3' high

Maid in Babylon  painted clay  2' high

Nagasaki  clay   22" high

Potscape clay  40" long

The tale is as old as the Eden tree, and as new as the new-cut tooth. For each man knows ere his lip-thatch grows, he's the master of Art and Truth. And each man hears as the twilight nears, to the beat of his dying heart. The devil drum on the darkened pane; "You did it but was it art"?                                                                                                  Kipling