An Artist in Toronto | Tamara Solem Alissa | Episode 1077
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Tamara "Solem" Al-Issa is a Syrian/Filipina Toronto-based sculptural artist with a focus on conveying preservation of time. Solem's work pulls from memories of the architecture and practices within SWANA and Southeast Asia through exploring familiar shapes, colours and textures from these regions. The Deep Blue series presents hand-built traditional shapes in a custom mixed cobalt blue which is a colour that evokes a familiar sense of nostalgia and wistfulness. In the SWANA region, the colour blue (particularly turquoise) is known to have mystical and protective qualities.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.5 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.2 | And here we are, episode 1077 of the Potter's cast. |
| 0:19.4 | Welcome to the show. man we had a great weekend we had a great weekend here at the |
| 0:28.9 | studios the great studios of ambelwood studios and paul blaze studio yes my wife and i we teamed up and had a and Paul Blaze Studio. |
| 0:46.5 | Yes, my wife and I, we teamed up and had a sale with Artstra, which is a local group that puts on or hosts the Clark County Open Studios here in Vancouver, Washington, and well, Clark |
| 0:53.2 | County. |
| 0:54.0 | And man, we just had, we just had the best time. |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, starting from like the second it started before we're showing up and just lasted |
| 1:01.5 | through the whole weekend. |
| 1:02.4 | And so just a great time. |
| 1:03.9 | We're going to be doing a follow-up with some of the potters that are ceramic artists |
| 1:09.1 | that were a part of this. And I'm looking forward to putting that out |
| 1:12.8 | there so yes yes I'm not going to talk too much about the event over the weekend I did some |
| 1:20.4 | fun stuff and I'll mention those in our follow-up that I do like a roundup or round table that |
| 1:27.0 | we'll do talking about that so we'll do |
| 1:29.3 | that I will just say this it was so great to meet people from the podcast that people who |
| 1:35.3 | are listeners of the podcast came one person Jamie stopped by and dropped off a beautiful gift |
| 1:41.8 | and letter and I was so honored and stoked to get that. |
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