Artisode; 2.7; Timothy Horn

I like clay because it's from the earth, it lasts forever. A canvas will eventually turn to dust, but clay ceramic seems to have an indefinite shelf life. So maybe when the universe is imploding, the big bang theory kind of expanding, contracting the universe, maybe there'll still be a Diego Romero pot on the planet. I'm a chronologist on the absurdity of human nature, and I believe humor is medicine. Once we lose the ability to laugh at ourselves and the world around us, we lose the ability to heal.

I wanted to do pottery, I guess, originally traditional pottery of the Pueblo Indian. Eventually, it became more of a combination of the traditional pottery and my love with comic books. I love narrative art. You know, I see comic books as kind of a contemporary mythology. You know, you look at the old pottery of the Greeks, and you have Hercules going down to Hades and whacking service over the head, and he brings them back, and you look at, so you have this whole, I guess, narrative of the superhero as far back as ancient Greece. I could pour through this stuff for days. It's just a feast for the eyes.

Here we go, and Wonder Woman, one of my all-time favorites. I kind of see her as like the earth goddess metaphor, like we interpret it. Yes, I am an Indian. I am also a white man too. Am I this white kid that grew up in Berkeley reading comic books, or am I this Johnny come lately back to the village born of Indian, and I really think I'm neither in both. Every pot I make stands a chance of being around here in thousands and thousands and thousands of years, and that people will look back on it and say, gee, this is interesting, people haven't changed that much. Every day I work on pottery, I feel like I've earned my place in the universe that day.

Thank you.