new bowl 2.2.2017

Here's another new bowl design that I plan to make more of. Instead of making it on a potter's wheel, I squeezed coils of clay together. This "hand-building" makes for a bowl that isn't perfectly round, isn't perfectly smooth, plus I purposefully formed the top edge to be uneven. Something about the imperfect quality attracts …

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clay&rust series 11.10.2016

I've got my clay&rust series just about completed. The glue is drying on my second-to-the-last vase, so I expect to be finished tomorrow. The series consists of 12 pieces, all vases. I waited until I had all the vases glazed and fired, then laid them out on a table to "try on" the pieces of …

hunt for rust 7.7.2016

Last month, my daughter's boyfriend Seth took me to an auto junk yard - my very first time visiting such an amazing collection of old cars and trucks. Seth was on the hunt for the brown Honda Civic he junked last year, and I was on the hunt for rust. I'm amazed and delighted by …

earth and metal 4.20.2016

I found a rusting, flat piece of metal on the street a couple months ago, and thought it'd look great on a ceramic piece. Because I wanted a large, flat area to display the metal, I built this vase out of rolled-out clay slabs. On newspaper, I sketched out a design, folded it in half …