This new year is off to a wonderful start! I was recently invited to participate in the Istanbul Concept Art Show 2012. This year’s theme is “The Taste of Love,” and the show will take place in Istanbul from mid-February. For this show I made a new ceramic piece, handmade, porcelain with silver leaf applied. This new piece was pit fired and measures 5.1 x 1.5 x 4 inches. It will be exhibited with this weathered seashell and silk scarf on which I wrote the following poem:
The taste of Love
Like shimmering moonlight
Trough a winter sky
An open hand
An honest smile
Flowing from the heart
Like petals
Of marigold and roses
Sweet and bitter
On the lips to taste
The sea
Like a heart in constant motion
And the taste of tears
Just here
Touching the earth
And slowly appearing
With remembrances
Of you and me
Irma Vega Bijou
Santa Barbara. CA.USA. January 2012