A cold, wet nose brings instant re-connection with reality! Dogs teach artists to be playful yet patient, spontaneous yet quiet, detached yet fully present.
Dogs are physically grounded and emotionally grounding. A dog’s rhythmic breath and physical ease, its ability to be in the here and now, can be a great comfort in the studio. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.” Artists are isolated by the nature of their work, often self-absorbed, and sometimes affected by the stress or anxiety of not knowing where their creative flow is taking them. Indeed they are, as Milan Kundera put it, “our link to paradise. It remains my favorite among my collection of kiln gods.” Picasso and his dachshund, Lump: Photo by David Douglas Duncanĭogs provide protection. Whenever I would ask him for a kiln god he would fire it for me so that it would be more durable. “Otto sculpted a kiln god in the likeness of Prince and I saw it on top of the kiln and asked him if I could have it. Donna Granata shared a touching memory about the pair: Otto Heino aged with his fluffy Australian shepherd, Prince, on his heels. Two famous ceramic artists in the valley always had dogs around: Beatrice Wood had little Dali, then Colette, Charlie and others. They seem to have a particularly important place in the physical and emotional geography of artists’ studios. Ojai Quarterly Magazine, Winter 2011 Issueįrom large shepherds to small bichons, dogs are a most visible part of life in the Ojai Valley.
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