Susan and I began our day at Starbucks. Â Here is the promised photo.
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Starbucks, St. Francis Rd, Santa Fe
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Starbucks outdoor seating and drive thru
On the way back I took more photos of the Railyard Garden.
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Santa Fe Railyard Park Plaza
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Circular Shade Ramada and Susan
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Santa Fe Railyard – Circular Shade Ramada. Hard to see this beautiful circular rose garden
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Santa Fe Railyard Waffel Garden. In the middle is a bed of blue glass stones
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Wonderful walkway with trumpet vine
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Community Stories – Piano painted by 7th graders needs some attention!
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Community Stories
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The Trust for Public Land – Santa Fe Railyard Park and Plaza
Mark gave Susan an assignment to draw her teapot life sized and he would show her how to make a template for the teapot. Â He took a compass, found the half, quarter, 1/8th and 1/16th. Â From this 1/16th measurement he made 1/6 of the teapot that Susan could use to make the entire body of the pot. Â Ingenious!
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Life Size drawing of a teapot. Using a compass Mark created a 1/6 template
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1/6 th tea pot template
Later in the afternoon Mark cut a square template from 1/4 inch masonite. Â Using a jigger saw he cut a square hole. Â He placed the square template on a bucket, laid the clay in the template and let gravity do it’s thing.
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Making a plate using a wood template
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Mark Pharis – Plate
We ended the day with a slide lecture by Mark. Â I love hearing someone talk about their work. Â It is like receiving a gem. Â On abstraction – Working on soy bottles allowed Mark to explore abstraction because there is no history in his family, life or in Minnesota of soy bottles. Â In the growth of a vision one can have a small epiphanies along the way which changes the direction of the art work. Â When do we learn about pots as kids, what is our history, what do we eat, how does that affect the way we think about form. Â Pots create social context they are about humanity.
More tomorrow. Â Esther told me not to post this so late because no one sees it at 12.24 EDS – sorry honey posting now! Â Good night.