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rakukaren com rakukaren com karen shapiro american pop icons art and office supplies automobilia bath beverage cosmetics food miscellaneou s pharmacy links email photo bill apton my first recorded attempts at artistic expression were at the ripe age of 5 years or so when i painstakingly painted the adobe brick walls surrounding our house in tucson the records of these attempts are the scratchy old home movies taken years ago the painted images being executed in nothing but tap water and disappearing instantly in the arizona sun years later i majored in art in high school where i began working in clay and continued in this medium as a design major in college after college and continuing until a year or so ago my medium changed drastically to a more edible art form in the shape of a long hard career as a pastry chef art and office supplies i am now happily out of the kitchen and back into the ceramics studio where i am finding great joy in working in a sculpture style which is new for me in earlier years my emphasis was on abstract form believing of course that i was redefining the perfect form upon reentering the ceramic studio at the college of marin under the tutelage of the ever inspiring energy and talent of anne peet carrington i naturally tried to take up where i had left off many years ago i was immediately frustrated and disappointed to see that those perfect forms would no longer come from my hands instead i was drawn to the form of a milk carton then to my espresso pot from italy next to an artichoke from the market in other words i found an inexhaustible source of fascinating shapes and forms staring at me from all sides automobilia bath beverage cosmetics now i find myself jumping around from vegetables to nail polish bottles and lipsticks to crayons and on and on and in addition to these wonderful objects i have also discovered the raku kiln the excitement of reaching into a red hot environment with tongs of the flaming bucket even the choking smoke and finding results i never dreamt of always changing always so much to learn has given me back an enormous energy appetite and passion for my work it s an adventure i ve just begun and i look forward to many fulfilling years and ever more exciting results which i hope to share with as many people as may also find them interesting and fun food miscellaneou s pharmacy please visit one of my wonderful galleries to purchase work in support of them i do not do direct sales studio 391 gualala ca winfield gallery carmel ca coda gallery palm desert ca iota dallas tx bonner david gallery scottsdale az elliott fouts gallery sacramento ca copyright 2005 to 2016 all rights reserved site designed by gerald milazzo