The love of Ceramics

It's a beautiful day in Michigan and the ice is starting to melt on the lake. The Scupltures below are by Marcello Fantoni from 1953ish. I love "ishing"! When you collect items from the past it is very rare to have a complete history on the items. Most people bullshit on who owned it and where it came from. These are from a old woman at a flea market who bought them from a woman, who bought them during her travels to Italy in the early 1950's. So it's the best I know, but it allows me to "ish" on the date and give by hand me down twist to the story. Nothing is fact unless you have seen it in person with your own eyes. Time changes all, but it does not heal all. Time clouds the past with bright jets of sunlight through the clouds with the part of the truth you need to hold onto or with dark clouds which hang over a period not allowing the sunlight in.

These are a cornerstone of my love from Ceramics and how they ended up with me is a wild journey which I will never truly know.