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Dwellings: The Potter's House (Text of the poem below)
Three Plates / Paper Dimension: 12" x 9" Hand-colored Etching on Handmade Watercolor Paper with Original Poetry Edition: 100 + 15 Artist Proofs Unframed $450 + Shipping
Dwellings: The Potter's House
There is a potter who builds a simple house ~ a dwelling smaller than a shoebox.
The sturdy ochre walls - fired slabs of clay, shaped and smoothed by hands not unlike those of a master gardener, for whom the earth and a certain measure of water upon it is the stuff of life.
And inside this house is a little candle that you can light with a match and find a metaphor for the simplicity and the grace
of a life well lived.
© C.C. Barton 1999
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