I first encountered writing on bowls in the Oriental Museum, on the south side of Chicago (part of the University of Chicago). They have an amazing collection of ancient pottery from Mesopotamia: Sumerian, Chaldean, Babylonian, Assyrian... I encountered an ancient Sumerian prayer bowl there, with a prayer printed inside, in cuneiforms, spiraling from the bottom to the lip, or, possibly from the lip to the bottom. I found the texture of the impressed letters to be very visually (and tactilely, I'm sure) attractive. Then it struck me that their civilization had just begun its first stages of phonetic writing (Sumeria - 3500 B.C.) and they immediately began to use it on pottery forms.
I now enjoy making pinched bowls and impressing them with poems, prayers, song lyrics, sacred texts, recipes, and words of wisdom... The act of holding the bowl and turning it, experiencing the textures as you are speaking the words, makes the experience active and alive, makes the reading more of a meditation or concentration exercise. |
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