Will Covid kill the big pot?
Let's face it Covid ain't going away soon. I know that online is going to be the new reality for many of us potters. So as I started to make today I thought about the nuisance of shipping pots. I'm a add man. I add all kinds of appendages, doo dads and things that make an item hard to pack and ship. Take one of my teapots for example. All kinds of add ons to try to protect.
So then to that add big ware. I have never considered myself a "big ware man" but I do make a number of items that are bigger than would be possible to use in a domestic kitchen. 20lb jugs, 35 lb casseroles, 25 lb bowls etc. I shipped a really beautiful jug of mine to a friend in Arkansas a month ago. I can't remember the weight but the height was 19". The shipping was $92 which was a third of the price of the jug.
So do I make my jugs, my casseroles and platters or do I make handless yunomi's and tame my cut and prick handles? Today I did. I figure for the next year at least I'm going to be shipping pots and I want to make pots not spend days trying to pack the impossible.
I came up with a different handle on the bowls that I kinda like and the yunomi's have got some stuff goin' on and would be easy to ship.
I always maintained that the kiln is the heart of your studio and the size of your kiln dictates the scale of your work. A big kiln requires big pots. So unless you got people coming to the farm gate or a good gallery representing you I think you might be up Shit Creek. If the gallery does online sales I can't see them wanting a 35 lb casserole. Please tell me I'm wrong.
For years I always got set up by a miniature maker of pottery at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. She would come with two suitcases full of pots while I had a car and a pickup full. Her thumb sized teapots sold for more than mine and she went home with a whole lot money than me. I should have learned.
Be well and safe my brothers and sisters of clay. 
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I mean, how far can a drone fly?
What size of drone would you need to deliver one of your pots?
And as a side note, I saw the most interesting political cartoon, it basically said that those lawmakers who refuse to make mask wearing mandatory have no problem passing laws to control
a uterus. Just an interesting note on the hypocrisy of some people.
rough edges and the beauty of nastiness
https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ClennellMar13CMfinal.pdf
jb
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Over the past few years, relations have been strained between China and a number of major Winter Olympic medal-winning countries, including the United States, Norway, Sweden, South Korea, Japan and Canada, whose athletes are preparing to compete in Beijing even as China continues to incarcerate Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-boycott-beijing-winter-olympics-former-top-canadian-diplomat-to-hong/#:~:text=Canada%20should%20boycott%20the%20Beijing%20Winter%20Olympics%20in,increasingly%20direct%20control%20of%20authorities%20in%20mainland%20China.
Colby Cosh: Canada should consider boycotting the Beijing 2022 Olympics
Meanwhile, to return to the original reason for my research into the state of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Canada seems perfectly prepared to send its athletes to a sporting competition in a country where two of its citizens are, at present, held in state custody, with minimum diplomatic assistance and under indecent conditions, on alleged but invisible evidence of vague political offences. I had been a little nervous that if the 2022 Games are in jeopardy, we might lose our own chance to boycott them.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/2022-winter-olympics-china-canada-boycott
pink, blue, purple all the colours can be had from the white ones,
just bury your teabags, and those coffee pods next to the plant,
the acid from the teabags with change the soil and add colour to your flowers,
and its a more green way than adding chemicals to the soil.
If you don't drink a lot of tea, accept donations,
besides you can always use the tea leaf ash on your ceramics.
Good luck!
xox
and in no time you'll have those blue balls of flowers.
Let's Talk About Teabagging
but don't get it confused with the other type of teabagging, you'll get a different kind of blue balls.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/news/a49805/sex-talk-realness-tea-bagging/
Why not publicize your jugs as doggie urns, and your casseroles as kitty caskets, and get those big bucks for them.
Symptoms of SBD include:
Pissing people off
Annoying people
Interfering with personal business
Obsessing over an ex
Being self absorbed
Being rude for no reason
Annie Dillard
--Gretel Ehrlich, a match to the heart
Do potters who don't dream, make meat tray pottery?
but on second thought, it would make the most purr-fect glaze.