"Shut Up In My Bones"
Dimensions: 8.5” H x 9.5” W
(Dimensions may vary slightly)
Shut Up In My Bones
Stoneware, Gold Leaf
Jeremiah 20:9
“If I say, ‘I will not mention him, or speak anymore in his name,’ there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.”
This lidded vessel are an attempt to encapsulate what the prophet Jeremiah felt when he wrote these words. When I read them I can identify with this feeling. God’s Word is so precious and vital to me. I wanted to put Jeremiah’s words and my own personal experience into my hands and translate that into clay.
As I was exploring how to do this, I was thinking a lot about bones and was reminded of my own odd aversion to spines and images of spines. For some reason they have always bothered me. It is something I never gave very much thought to, but when I dug a little deeper, I realized that the reason I’ve always felt so touchy about spines is because they protect something that is incredibly precious, vital, and fragile. The spinal cord is what allows our brain to communicate with the body to move and function. What a perfect analogy for what God’s Word is like shut up in my bones!
The silhouette of this vessel is an abstraction of an individual vertebrae. The rough, bone-like quality of the glaze is contrasted against the beauty of the fiery gold that lines the interior of the vessel.
Dimensions: 8.5” H x 9.5” W
(Dimensions may vary slightly)
Shut Up In My Bones
Stoneware, Gold Leaf
Jeremiah 20:9
“If I say, ‘I will not mention him, or speak anymore in his name,’ there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.”
This lidded vessel are an attempt to encapsulate what the prophet Jeremiah felt when he wrote these words. When I read them I can identify with this feeling. God’s Word is so precious and vital to me. I wanted to put Jeremiah’s words and my own personal experience into my hands and translate that into clay.
As I was exploring how to do this, I was thinking a lot about bones and was reminded of my own odd aversion to spines and images of spines. For some reason they have always bothered me. It is something I never gave very much thought to, but when I dug a little deeper, I realized that the reason I’ve always felt so touchy about spines is because they protect something that is incredibly precious, vital, and fragile. The spinal cord is what allows our brain to communicate with the body to move and function. What a perfect analogy for what God’s Word is like shut up in my bones!
The silhouette of this vessel is an abstraction of an individual vertebrae. The rough, bone-like quality of the glaze is contrasted against the beauty of the fiery gold that lines the interior of the vessel.
Dimensions: 8.5” H x 9.5” W
(Dimensions may vary slightly)
Shut Up In My Bones
Stoneware, Gold Leaf
Jeremiah 20:9
“If I say, ‘I will not mention him, or speak anymore in his name,’ there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.”
This lidded vessel are an attempt to encapsulate what the prophet Jeremiah felt when he wrote these words. When I read them I can identify with this feeling. God’s Word is so precious and vital to me. I wanted to put Jeremiah’s words and my own personal experience into my hands and translate that into clay.
As I was exploring how to do this, I was thinking a lot about bones and was reminded of my own odd aversion to spines and images of spines. For some reason they have always bothered me. It is something I never gave very much thought to, but when I dug a little deeper, I realized that the reason I’ve always felt so touchy about spines is because they protect something that is incredibly precious, vital, and fragile. The spinal cord is what allows our brain to communicate with the body to move and function. What a perfect analogy for what God’s Word is like shut up in my bones!
The silhouette of this vessel is an abstraction of an individual vertebrae. The rough, bone-like quality of the glaze is contrasted against the beauty of the fiery gold that lines the interior of the vessel.