Woke up one morning and realized I was a Celt. Don't know why that escaped me - it wasn't as if we had haggis for breakfast or anything.
Shortly after art school I started looking at imagery that wasn't related to mining and found the Gundestrup Cauldron - and thought that the imagery was fascinating. My own research on the net (check out Ric's site Celtic Me) hasn't brought up a lot of information - in fact, a few of the interpretations of who's who conflict radically with each other.
Not being a metalsmith (yet) I made half a dozen of these plates from the cauldron in clay, enjoying the stories these simple, yet powerful figures told me.
What story do these people tell you?
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication." Friedrich Nietzsche
Thursday, January 06, 2005
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