Ceramika Artyzstyczna teapot
I love this fat, strong, vibrant, truthful pottery. Boleslawiec has many potteries, and Ceramika Artystyczna is the oldest and best. The pottery is hand-made. The older designs remind me of Polish theatre, which is just as hand-made, as penetratingly truthful. Even mainstream theatre in Poland resonates with that other-worldliness, that matter-of-fact nondenial of truth. It is a company which still lives in myth.
"I am hard man," a Polish artistic director once said to me. "I am not nice. So at my company, I surround myself with nice people. So I can be me."
That is a Polish-tasting thought. It makes me think, I need to surround myself with hard people, with realists. So I can be me.
At home I drink from fat-bellied tea mugs ("gentlemen's mugs," the Polish site calls them) to remind myself to make theatre as good as this pottery. As earthy, as spiritually clean.
Their old logo
Their new logo
They do a lot of their designs by stamping. Having carved my own eraser-stamps for years, I find that familiar.
1 comment:
I like the teapot, it is kind of cool.
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