Go ask Alice......
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Unloading kilns
MP jar finally glazed with a couple of kiln interlopers. Very low-fired cups for coffee...Maybe disposable ...From the earth and back.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
"More like a craft than a production, we roast in very small batches with very big smiles� small, intimate and joyful, just the way we like it. Hand roasted, hand packed, hand stamped with the roast date is how our beans make their way into the cups of the Barossa and beyond. Barossa Coffee Roasters grew in our hearts and our heads over many a cup of home roasted coffee, an 'on the side' thing that became a passion for freshly roasted beans that seemed to elude us in the Barossa. The birth of our first daughter Amilie ignited the desire for a peaceful and flexible lifestyle and an urge to share a passion crafted with our own hands, in a slow and conscious way. The brand was born, a Roaster was purchased and our shed was converted into a purpose built Roastery, overlooking the vines through salvaged French Doors. We set up shop at the local Saturday morning Barossa Farmers Market, a much loved tradition in our weekly flow, very soon extending to our second dau...
diversion
Sometimes a nice small commission comes along to stretch the boundaries of known technique.
Go Ask Alice....
What is the difference between a figure and a figurine? Is the difference a question of scale exclusively, of size only? Not necessarily. Of course, what we call the figurine is as a rule, if not a law, much smaller in size than these other works we would call a figure or a figurative work in the visual arts. Yet, much figurative sculpture is small in scale without being classified, categorized as �figurine�. Figurative Renaissance bronzes for example are often miniature, scaled-down representations of bodies and human forms yet they are logically and rightfully understood and explained as would be full or even larger than life size sculptures. The very term �figurine� implies a diminution not only in size but also in inherent status compared with the figure, and the figurine occupies a lowlier position in the (still) existing hierarchy of three-dimensional images, in the domain of sculpture within the visual arts. If the difference is not one of scale, could it be one of ma...