Kiln haul

Made these ornaments for Millicent and Madeline. Jacob too I guess but he doesn’t scream Christmas.

I think Millie will say something about monetizing these and I’ll say something about capitalism. But damn they be beautiful.

Next some fish from the glaze kiln, quickly I’m over the combo of blue and gittas blue. Spent the night making test tile combinations (and recording what I did so I’m not a little bitch).

Something unknown happened with a flower bowl. Will sacrifice it to the classroom.

These excite me most. I’ve forgotten what I did for the glazes except that hideous one (I mixed pink and transparent). I imagine them on a wall, will have to ask Evi how she hung her fish.

I was trying to figure out how to collage with clay. They’re beautiful, I can’t get over them.

This guy obvi has chun glaze but I’m not sure which way he orients.

To end: proof of notetaking. Someday I’ll look back at this turning point in my artistic practice.

Ceramicist (but with a lisp)

Glazed all of these bitches. I mixed one glaze with another (transparent and Pete’s cranberry, transparent and blue) for some of the abstract underglaze pieces— they aren’t fish. The fish I did mix glazes as well, but by layering.

I don’t know how that’ll turn out. Glaze feels like a leap of faith to me, instead of the science it’s supposed to be.

I look at other peoples shelves because they make pottery and it’s beautiful and magical. I also periodically clock the items in lost and found, but that’s because I’m curious to what gets considered lost. Every visit I check each bin of reclaim, I’m curious to what gets considered inadequate.

Shrimp, shrimp, shrimp.

Just a beautiful bowl with unknown processes. Seeing something like this will ask me to make better art, with more experiments.

Fish along the way

If I make 1000 fish and a significant amount break, do they still count towards my total?

Unbroken fish, some needing to be dremmeled. Various glazes I recorded improperly.

Broken or inaccessible fish due to the rod. Same improper glazing notation.

The pots, that right one be ugly af.