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A'Ssissa, A'Ssissa Shi'Rayân, by Angela Seidel, 1995.
Submitted and presented by M.-Dominique She used non- toxic elements, such as
Crapon de Caprona. ashes from various trees, and did her own
clay stamps which she used to decorate
I knew the German potter Angela Seidel plates, mugs and bowls.
when I was a student at the Max Planck
Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie in She also painted animals on them and
Seewiesen by Starnberg, Bavaria, in the little whimsical scenes, using her own
1980s. I often went to visit her with a dear glazes.
friend and always came back home with
something she made. In 1995 I was visiting my friend, and we
went together to her shop. I had a photo
She had her studio and adjacent little shop of A’Ssissa with me and asked her if she
in a secluded building behind the train could do a mug with her. It was the first
station in Starnberg. Angela Seidel time I asked an artist to create something
specialized in natural clay and glazes, special
ahead of her time with her concern for for me.
the environment.
This is the lovely result.
