Why Cow and Sun?
The image that graces the banner of this site is yet another avatar of a line drawing i did thirty years or so ago. The image was inspired by the profile of a Brahman cow under a sun whose form is an allusion to the work of the abstract expressionist Adolph Gottlieb. The image is pretty much the totality of my artistic output and like the work of many great artists, has suffered from both ridicule and misunderstanding. Over the years i've done the Cow and Sun in a variety of media including bailing wire, torn paper and sand.
A drawing of the mountains near Deming, New Mexico that i did several years earlier shows the same calligraphic style; a style particularly well suited to a lack of talent and no other drawing tools than pen and paper.
Over the years, the Cow and Sun became something of a private joke among my friends and i. It seemed time to move that private joke to the very public internet and i set up this site, and with the help of my good friend Valera Ahlen at Concept Consulting, Cow and Sun Productions had an actual business card in spite of not having a business, an anomaly i quite enjoyed.
Connections
Things have done what things tend to do: change. Although Cow and Sun Productions will now host a business to go with the business card, it will also continue to be a home to anomaly. The pottery you'll find here at Cow and Sun will reflect that. There are pieces from well known artists that are marked by what at first might appear to be less-than-perfect execution but that my own involvement with producing hand coiled pottery has led me to appreciate as the traces of those unique and beautiful accidents that the best artists embrace.