Meet the Starbirds
eurekathyme on May 19th 2009 10:40 pm
Meet the Starbirds
at Eureka Thyme
May 22-24, 2009
Dear Friends,
This weekend we will celebrate the creativity of Ken Starbird and Sandy Wythawai Starbird. Join us on Saturday, May 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. to meet this fascinating duo and see some of the creations which have brought joy to so many. New works of the Starbirds’ will be on display from May 22 to the 24th. Their primal images and ceramics are always available at Eureka Thyme!
Sandy Wythawai Starbird
Strange Duo
“Sandy has been birthing Primal Images for over 22 years, first as Sandy Carlson and now as Sandy Wythawai Starbird. The fiber, fabric and found objects figures are the culmination of years of exploration and adventures in sewing, dyeing, weaving, crocheting, basketry, beading and hand building with clay and anything else that sounded like fun. ‘When working on these figures I feel a closeness with the image makers of the past who tried to create work worthy of spiritual presence and through which the answers to life’s mysteries could be found. The images speak of that which is hidden behind the mask. They speak of the connectedness of all things. They touch that Primal creative part of us which remembers that imagination and magic are closely related. When we were young we knew that we created the world anew each moment and with every sunrise. Sometime in childhood we stop trusting what feels right to us and begin accepting what we are told is true about this world. Creative work of any kind provides an opportunity for each willing person to tap into their own intuitive knowing and re-experience that early feeling of BEING magic’ ”
Ken Starbird
Stoneware Garden Lantern
by Ken Starbird
” ‘Creativity is that process which gives external form to inner ideas or feelings evolving from things past, bridging to things future and recording a finite moment of self-awareness’ ” Kenneth Starbird has attained such a distinctive signature in ceramics that his sculptures have the look of emerging from the hand of a wizard. They are both anthropomorphic and divine, splendidly organic, and appear concerned with sorcerous spells and aspects of pagan ritual. Like a convincing magician, Starbird invites the beguiling notion that clay can rise up in a plastic lump from the earth’s crust and spontaneously assume forms and implications concerned with supernatural games.”
Los Angeles Times”
Apartheid #2 Stoneware
by Ken Starbird
Friend or Foe Stoneware
by Ken Starbird
The Artists of Eureka Springs are being celebrated at all galleries in and around town. Please support these treasures of our community with us! For more information on other events, visit www.artofeureka.com
Marsha Havens
and the Eureka Thyme Family
19 Spring Street | Eureka Springs | AR | 72632
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