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"IT WAS RED"
These grim bookends are inspired by Steven King's Duma Key. They are hand-built, bisque-fired with colored underglaze, then a semi-transparent red was used in the glaze firing. The desired effect was for pooling of red in the 'gouged' areas and a thinner tint elsewhere.
Below I have photos of the bookends, and also quotes, because this is one book of many whose words I hold close to my heart.
“I scratched the word HELLO in small letters. ... And as names go, it's a good one, isn't it? In spite of all the damage that followed, I still think that's the perfect name for a picture drawn by a man who was trying his best not to be sad anymore - who was trying to remember how it felt to be happy.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key
“A hurt body and mind aren’t just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion. That my mind had been as badly hurt as my body was a thing I only came to realize once I was alone and all other voices dropped away.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key
“What do you do when you can't use anger to fall back on? You admit the truth.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key
“If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key
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