Extending the Shade into Bells © 1998 Ginger Henry Geyer glazed porcelain with gold and platinum 8 bells, from 10 ¼” high to 3 ½” high
This octave of misshaped bells is a tribute to a poet. Each bell has a handle and a clapper taken from images in poems from the book Extending the Shade, by Betty Sue Flowers. The bells are graded by color and by size, some ring true and some do not. Some of the concrete images borrowed for the handles and clappers include a pile of blueberries, a pack of Juicy Fruit gum, wire cutters, apple peel, a goldfinch, a pickle, a crab claw, and a string of black beads. The pairing of images per bell was primarily by color, leaving new analogies to chance. |
