Vessel of (Dis)honor - from Cheryl Penn

[Marie Wintzer]

 

- Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? -

This is part of a painting (oil painting I think) Cheryl was working on, which she cut up and then repainted on. Beautifully earthly and homely and clay..ly (sorry for the horrible word, you know what I mean, something warm and nice to run your fingers on).
We are all vessels, but what are we made of? Clay? China? Plastic? Iron?... Are we a pot? a bowl? a pitcher? a bottle?
In an email to me, Cheryl told me a bit more about this piece, and how she was thinking about how vessels (people) may be filled with honor/dishonor. How we fill our minds/time. Clay earthen vessels, leaky vessels, broken people/broken vessels.
This got me seriously thinking, as with all of Cheryl's work. I don't think my vessel is filled with Dishonor, but it's probably got a few of them cracks, yes. Cracked vessels need other (equally cracked) vessels to receive the leaking content, and the cycle goes on and on... No, I am NOT going to say anything about Wounds in this blog. Or am I? :-)))
Oh, I forgot to mention, the card came with a great semi-asemic letter, written on a printed mosaic face with eyes so bright they can see right through me. And I can almost read all of it! :-)
Thank you my S.S.S.S. ! This amazing card will officially start part 2 of the Cheryl Penn correspondence book.

 

[De Villo Sloan]

a pot-shot? more like pot-luck! this is all a crock anyway... I'm going crackers

[cheryl penn]

Is D.W. taking a pot-shot?

[Marie Wintzer]

DWS you're on fire!

[De Villo Sloan]

I think she goes straight for the jug-ular in this piece - the sign of a real des-pot

[De Villo Sloan]

cp-sa cracks me up - her work has real pot-ential

[De Villo Sloan]

Makes me think of the broken golden bowl in Ecclesiastes and then the novel "The Golden Bowl" by Henry James that has as its central image a golden bowl, cracking, then breaking into fragments

[cheryl penn]

Hello Sweet Pea :-) - thank you for a FAB blog - the vessels simile - its always haunted me. Cracks - we've all got those! They come from growing.

[Kyra Matustik]

Like this

[Plush Possum Studio-Rose McGuinn]

I needed this. So joyous, reading your words next to this artwork. Such a wonderful group. Where had I been all me life before you?

[De Villo Sloan]

This is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I now have a strange skin condition and weeping wounds after a dip in The Toxic Pool. So I will neither confirm nor deny this piece might have meaning.