Made By Hand: Bridgette Guerzon Mills

Silent Moments, 7"x5", mixed media

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out." ~Ray Bradbury

Currently I am working on a series about bowls, inspired by the following Raymond Carver poem.

Tomorrow

Cigarette smoke hanging on

in the living room. The ship's lights

out on the water, dimming. The stars

burning holes in the sky. Becoming ash, yes.

But it's all right, they're supposed to do that.

Those lights we call stars.

Burn for a time and then die.

Me hell-bent. Wishing

it were tomorrow already.

I remember my mother, God love her,

saying, Don't wish for tomorrow.

You're wishing your life away.

Nevertheless, I wish

for tomorrow. In all its finery.

I want sleep to come and go, smoothly. 

Like passing out of the door of one car

into another. And then to wake up!

Find tomorrow in my bedroom. 

I'm more tired now than I can say.

My bowl is empty. But it's my bowl, you see,

and I love it.

-Raymond Carver

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