08/29/2026
Yesterday was the kind of day I imagined when dreaming of building the studio years ago.
Diane Pinchot, artist and master teacher, and Jean-Marie Papoi, journalist, videographer and photographer, visited.
What a thrill to have hours of conversation about purpose, meaning, the unknown, questioning, and deep looking.
Diane's work links profoundly with the Lakota origin story of Mitakuye Oyasin - the concept of oneness. The Lakota believe that all presences within the Universe are interrelated. Stones, rivers, animals...these beings and energies are "all my relations".
Diane spoke about The Wind as one of these energies and relations yesterday. "Uprooted", collection of Jeff Cryczan, embodies this energy.
As the conversation gathered around this piece I thought of Leonardo's turbulence drawings and Van Gogh's ability to infuse line and brush work with life.
Paul Klee said that artists make the invisible visible. Here at the studio held within the materiality of clay primal energies of being, becoming and transformation sing.
The exquisite forms of Diane Pinchot embody time, they carry the message of oneness, and today the studio still hums with the Lakota benediction sung by Christopher Reynolds at the opening's closing.
"A Touch of the Earth", Diane Pinchot, OSU, Retrospective & Meditation.
Orange Dog Studio, 134 East Rod and Gun Club Road, Rimersburg, Pennsylvania, 16248.
Fridays noon til 3
Saturdays noon til 5
Through September 5th.