Psychoceramatist: Art shaped by geology, time, and transformation.
Psycho/cerama/tists
Psychoceramatist breakdown:
Psychoceramatist (artus curiosus).
Kingdom: Creativa.
Phylum: Curiosa.
Class: Artifex.
Order: Crackpotidae.
Family: Wordsmithae.
Genus: Psychocerama.
Species: artus curiosus.
Common Name:
Psychoceramatist.
Habitat:
Most commonly found inhabiting pottery studios, fossil quarries, blacksmith shops, museums, libraries, coffee houses, and neighborhood art galleries. Rarely observed remaining within a single discipline for extended periods.
Geographic Distribution:
Known to occur wherever curiosity collides with craftsmanship. Particularly abundant near geological outcrops, historic landscapes, and places where stories accumulate.
Diet:
Coffee. Puns. Curiosity. Old books. Conversation. Occasional trilobites (strictly for observation, not consumption).
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Often carries clay beneath the fingernails, camera over one shoulder, geology hammer in one hand, sketchbook in the other, and a notebook full of impossible ideas.
Behavior:
Frequently observed forging both metal and metaphors.
Displays an unusual tendency to cross disciplinary boundaries without warning.
Known to interrupt ordinary conversations with obscure references to paleontology, etymology, local history, philosophy, or rock.
Will often answer a simple question with another question.
Vocalization:
Most commonly heard asking:
"Why not?"
Other calls include:
• "Everything is connected."
• "There's a pun in there somewhere."
• "Look closer."
• "That crack lets the light in."
Predators:
Academic pigeonholes.
Grant applications demanding a single medium.
People who insist one must "pick a lane."
Defense Mechanism:
Deploys humor, curiosity, and relentless questioning until predators lose interest or become fascinated themselves.
Conservation Status:
Rare but resilient.
Population difficult to estimate due to frequent misidentification as sculptors, ceramicists, photographers, geologists, historians, jewelers, writers, educators, or professional crackpotists.
Notes:
Although often mistaken for several different species throughout its lifetime, the mature Psychoceramatist eventually recognizes that these apparent identities are not separate organisms but expressions of a single evolving ecology of mind.
And, because no field guide is complete without the discoverer's notes.
Type Specimen:
Psychoceramatist (artus curiosus)
Collected in the foothills of Colorado after prolonged exposure to clay, fossils, fire, stories, and unreasonable curiosity. Distinguished from related species by an inability to stop asking "Why?" followed immediately by "Why not?"
Characteristics:
Puns and double entendres eaten up like a Bakers dozens formed with holy doughs.
Compelled as a Craftsman to forge words like hot metal.
Folds and Forges hammers by the hammer to then break the molds of society.
Turning clay on a wheel, made from rocks…back into rocks again, sparking up the bowls.
Psychoceramatists mostly make urns learned from Intuitions of Higher Urning
Believe cracks in wall are reigns mixing with partly clouded dusty hot air that are reviled by the light shining through too.
Loves to tell stories like how the first dinosaur fossil found was called Scrotum humanum.
Recent findings indicate that such touched people formed words through Art, evolving from wants buried deep within spiritual caverns. Subsequent excavations have revealed forgotten layers of meaning—strata first preached by a bishop before they were read by a geologist. These findings suggest the Psychoceramatist may not, in fact, be an entirely imaginary species.
Diagnostic Testing:
If it asks "Why?" it's probably a professor. If it asks, "Why not?" it's probably a Psychoceramatist.
Current Status:
Neither extinct nor fully accepted by the scientific community. Further excavation required.
Type Locality:
Morrison, Colorado. Wanders.
Status:
Living.
Disposition:
Curious.
Conservation Priority:
High.
Handling Instructions:
Do not attempt to classify while caffeinated.
Taxonomic Note:
Classification remains under review. The specimen refuses to remain in the box provided. What we do.
Photography
Digital Photography
Pottery
Low Fire/High Fire Ceramics both Functional and Non-functional.
Metalsmith
Custom Hand Wroght and Cast Work of
Damascus - Mokume Gane - Silver and other semiprecious metals and objects.
Sculpture
Environmental and Interior Designed Work
- In Steel, Ceramic & Bronze
Framing
Custom Conservation & Museum Picture Framing for Artists (wholesale)
Digital Art
"Digital Art" ~ is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of the creative or presentation process