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I walked into Ly’s classroom to see her ocean exhibit and found my own fish. I forget every year that I gave her these.
I made them probably a decade ago. After Aaron overdosed and Suzanne had died and Maria’s mom had been killed my PTSD kept me from participating in the world. I started painting again and made birds and fish, birds and fish. I’d forgotten that. Birds and fish.
Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won’t you be my claybor?
Explored near the studio for the first time and found a potential new coffee spot and a cute market. Then I got to the studio and retrieved my kiln haul.
This is the biggest fish I’ve made so far. I decided to make the smallest fish today as a companion.
Three or four fish had their string holes filled in by glaze. No major epiphanies occurred with glaze combinations.
In fact, there’s some confusion because I swear I put a white on some of these sculptural pieces and these fuckers are not white.
And this vase lost an underglaze color.
Ended up making twenty or so new fish to keep me glazing for a while.
Made a new studio friend, a woman behind me who was just making toothbrushes the entire time. We all have our things.
Every year in my classroom we learn about and make the ocean. It’s my favorite time of the year, it’s process oriented, it allows them to dive deep into something new.
Each year we get delightful new animals interpreted by four and five years old. This year has some really beautiful fish.
The parrotfish made me want to make something more parrotfish.
I took to the studio in the heat yesterday to try and replicate the feeling.
Each fish has multiple colors and I want to keep exploring adding color to the fish in novel and different ways. I’ve noticed different clay colors in the studio that have been tinted by mason color. I’ll snap a picture next time I’m in but the heat makes stepping into that space difficult.
Smaller fish for scale
First this weeks kiln haul.
Second, what I made today. Stole a vase from the reclaim, made a shitty little bowl and a few fish, along with some sculptural work.
It truly feels like play most days, and when it’s work I switch my approach.