Uptown is being detoured by getting thru Downtown. My horoscope that I read religiously every Tuesday told me to start making plans to make money so that I can fulfill my dreams once this Plague has gone away.
Well Dear Abby my dreams have been fulfilled. I love making pots!. I love travelling and teaching! I love the people I hang with. I have love in my life. I am comfortable. Taking away my gigs and my pottery and my ability to travel has me staring at my bisque ware and wondering WTF to do with it.
I have always proclaimed that you should know how you are going to glaze and fire a piece before you actually make it. Well dammit anyways I made this work with wood firing in mind. I laid a bit of it out on the table trying to come up with a new plan. Floating Blue, Rosie's Red, Waterfalls, oh shit I'm just killing these pots.
Wood firing for me has meant leaving clay exposed. I made this work with leaving clay exposed and minimal glazing.
At Pinecroft they have a gas glaze kiln going tomorrow. I have a few kiln wash glaze tests in it and some yunomi's that may or not make it to the Yunomi Show at Akar Gallery. Fingers, toes and legs crossed. I tossed a coin and what I did may be great or really terrible. If they are terrible you will never see them. The hammer has always been one of my best friends.
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| Downtown waiting for Uptown |
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| Bacon anyone? |
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| Big foot |
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no hugs allowed, follow social distancing rules, plexiglass shields between people while eating or snacking, and protective clothing, and have at it.
I don't think things will be back to normal this year for a wood firing to happen.
Sad times all around.
If you are desperate you can always Raku?
M.G.
John Waters
Better do a safe, under 5 people firing in the summer.
B.B.
Are you going to be offering any online classes or workshops?
-desperately isolated clay student-