'Waves'

36"H x 54"W x 8"D
Raku Fired Ceramic
1982

Everything is made up by vibration, as nothing remains perfectly still. This abstract work was sold, but as the people came to pick up the work from the Gallery, to my great loss the wire supporting the piece gave up (broke). The work fell from the wall to the floor and broke to pieces. As the gallery owner called me, the would be owner arrived. Seeing the broken work she broke into tears. It took me one week's hard work to restore the piece. When the repaired work was shown to the client again she could not believe that it was the same piece. She could not make herself to buy this work, she bought another piece of mine. One of my old teachers said, "to make art work is easy, but to restore it needs mastery". One thing I have learned from this event is to always check the wiring.