The Potter’s Porsche
Which one
of these Porsche’s belongs to the potter?
The Porsche Club came for lunch at Pinecroft Pottery today. Next week
the Mustang Club is coming and the week after the Mazda Miata Club. These are
all the folks we keep the prices of our pottery low for so that they can have a
day off to go out for lunch in their sexy little cars. Looked like some older
dudes with some pretty sexy younger women. I wonder if the golden labs Roxy and
Maggie could work the same magic at a lot less cost.
Here are
some trays out of the gas kiln today.
There was a day in another life when I would make a slab of clay lay it
in a commercially made mold, cut off the excess clay, glaze it, fire it and sell it.
I made them by the hundreds. Boy, wasn’t I an amazing artist? That is
workshop material.
Today the molds lay dormant and I make these
trays. I throw clay on the wheel and throw it on the table to stretch it into
these sculptural vessels providing a visual function as well as providing a
sanctuary for a banana and some oranges. I’ll have a couple of these vessels at
the Guelph Potter’s Market this weekend. If you aren’t interested in my pottery
at least come and see my cute little grand daughter Julia. She is coming to support
Grandpa. My bet her eyes will work the magic a Porsche couldn’t.
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