![]() ![]() Pushing Wood’s analogy further than functionality, we can see that both practices also involve the crafting of raw material into recognisable forms, and the compression of complex temporalities. Beatrice Woods Life has been extraordinary in every way. While the substance of ceramics is ‘clay and chemicals’, she muses that the ‘stuff of life is most certainly people’, the autobiographic document reimaged as ‘a big pot, shaped, designed, and filled by the people one has known and loved’. Buy a used copy of I Shock Myself : The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood book by Beatrice Wood. In the acknowledgments of her aptly titled memoir I Shock Myself (1985), the celebrated ‘Mamma of Dada’ and internationally renowned ceramist Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) draws a compelling comparison between the forms and functions of autobiography and the processes of pottery, both of which she embarked on later in life, and remained preoccupied by until her death at 105. ![]() We cannot hold on to the past or grab onto the future, and the present is ever gone. So perhaps we do not exist in time as we know it. When asked the secret to her longevity, she responded, I owe it all to art books, chocolates. ![]() A scientist once said there is no such thing as time. Her best-known book is her autobiography, I Shock Myself (1985). ![]()
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