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Dead Letter Reliquaries 1 and 2

Text Messages: Clay and Print
A series of vessels that began as worries and ended as prayers
October 17-November 28, 2008
The Upfront Gallery
Durham, North Carolina

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“ . . . eye of the blackbird . . .”
From the series, “Thirteen Ways.”


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LEFT: “His house was perfect.”
RIGHT: “Why are you hiding, darling?”
BOTTOM: “Cross my fingers . . .”

(text eggs in heating elements with Spanish moss)

LEFT: “My friend said I was not a good son.”
RIGHT: “I got up and left him then . . .”
(Raku eggs with silver stands)

“I think I could forgive you almost everything if you were here.”
(text vase)

From: Text Messages: Clay and Print

Childhood Reliquary #2
("Someday or bodies will no longer matter . . .")

Raku text egg in heating element

Walter Hyleck, 40 Years of Ceramic Leadership
March 16–April 25, 2008
Berea College, Berea, Kentucky

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Poetry eggs


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"I am not a good guest."

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Concrete Words installation shot from Stories from the Center
Fall 2007
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

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Coyote Triptych

Letterpress type pressed into stoneware clay; laser toner photos; red iron oxide

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Raku poetry eggs with chicken wire

Cherokee, North Carolina, 1957

Found objects pressed into ceramic tile w/photo transfer, oxides, and dry glaze. 2005

Poster for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University