Heather Ferman lampwork beads

Heather Ferman Flamework Beads

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Pottery

I worked as a Potter for 23 years before I started working in glass. I do miss working in clay but my studio is not large enough for both.....currently.....but maybe some day. This is why I am so fascinated with creating vessel shaped beads. I can still create the vessels and remember my days on the pottery wheel.

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Many years ago, the day before Yom HaShoah, I had finished throwing a piece of pottery. As I was looking at this beautifully thrown vase, it was boring and lifeless. All I could think of was a picture I had seen of a little boy in the Warsaw ghetto during the holocaust with his arms up against a wall. Suddenly, I started to create a stone wall on this vase. And I began thinking about people in the Warsaw ghetto against this wall and I kept hearing the Shema. As I was finishing the piece and writing the first sentence of the Shema on the piece, the wall took on another image in my mind. I was picturing the Kotel and people saying Shema at the Kotel. I realized that the wall in my mind looked the same. I titled that piece Hope and Despair since one wall, the Kotel, symbolizes hope for the Jewish people, and the other wall, in the Warsaw ghetto, conjures feelings of despair. In both places we would sing Shema. Ever since I created this piece I have been re-creating images of the Kotel as my most enjoyable theme in my work. \r\n\r\n $175.