Knackered
I’m
staggering back to the studio to work. It has been a big fall of firing the
wood kiln. I don’t spring back as I did when I was 27. I have one to unload on Saturday and then
another to load and fire the following weekend. That’s it for 2017. All week I’ve
ended up on the couch for an hour long ciesta after lunch. I go into a deep
coma so I know I’m tired.
I need some
rest so that I can meet Dan Finnegan at Starworks NC and start on some new
work. I haven’t got the foggiest idea what I am going to do yet. I have been
hearing rumours Takuro has a dirty porcelain. If dirty means some balls by
means of a good course fireclay I’m all over that. This is back to school for
me so I don’t want to make what I could make at home. I will have an amazing
ceramic brain (Takuro) at my doorstep so I want to tap that to the fullest. I
will be living on the property of Bruce Gholson who is one of the best glaze
minds in the bizz.
I started
making some platters that will fill my gas kiln just so I can say I fired it
this fall. When I have wood on my mind
it is hard for me to think gas. I really do make different pots for each kind
of firing.
If the
triumph you seek isn’t humbling, it’s not the right triumph.
Right now I’m
thinking of Dan, Starworks, Takuro/Hitomi, Bruce/Sam, David/Nancy and the entire wonderful community of Seagrove that is so rich in
ceramic knowledge and history. I am the richest man in this room tonight- Dan
Finnegan.
The original Cactus Lounge Flame Throwers pen and ink arrived from DH which I just love. More art for my man cave.
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