Fancynancy

MY INTERCULTURAL JOURNEY My parents exposed me to many different cultures while in the home. These intercultural exposures continued throughout my adulthood.  When returning to art college after 42 years and was asked at the beginning of the first semester to post twenty inspirational images of ceramic art on my wall that I would like to eventually make, I found myself posting many different kinds of pottery from all around the world. I couldn't settle on any one culture. I was born in a very small town in Michigan in 1958 to Caucasian parents, although on my mother’s side we were told to just write the word caucasian down when asked, because she came from so many mixed races. Her people came in with the Pilgrims and were from  Scandinavia, Germany, Europe, Spain, Caucasian Mountain’s, Persia, Russia, Mongolia and Asia. According to the genealogy center in Sandersville Georgia we also have Native American in us as well, on my mothers side. My mother had the most beautiful bl...

  Nancy Susan Nelson Gordon Where It All Began At the age three I daydreamed of making enormous pots and being a potter someday. I would sit on the banks of a 100,000 acre lake and fashion the clay I pulled from the banks into small clay objects. There was a store in our hometown in the 1960's when I was young, called World Bazaar. I frequented it with my mother. I became interested in the blue and white large Japanese porcelain vases I saw, as well as other pottery. When I was in grade school my older sister acquired two Japanese pen pals through a school program. I enjoyed looking at the foreign hand writing as well as the gifts they sent my sister.  We moved into a Japanese style home in my teens. The home was equipped with sliding panels throughout the house, a few Japanese gardens and two komainu loin dogs guarded the front entrance.  My older sister went one to major in foreign language studies specializing in Japanese and frequent...