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Slow Starting
Staggered stumbling starts words awkwardly twist not forming cohesively stopping any progress -Red Fox Poet Writing for the lending library I sat each piece on my desk, I measured it, entered the technical data. I had made each one, I … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Research, storytelling
Tagged Beach, ceramics, distraction, edit, fresh start, hands on thinking, poetry, pottery, red fox poetry, red fox pottery, Research, Silverdale, Silverdale beach, writing
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The Joy of Slip
There is simplicity in slip, the mixing of clay and water to a smooth homogenous liquid. Slip decoration is so seductive and there is something about the playfulness of surface that it brings. There are some amazing potters that slip … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Making, Slip
Tagged Adam Field, ceramics, clay, Doug Fitch, hands on thinking, Kazuhiro Ashizawa, learning, making, Naofumi Maeno, pottery, sgraffito, Slip, terracotta
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The importance of a narrow focus
I didn’t know it at the time but James Hake gave the best advice to me when as an art student and I told him I wanted to be a Potter. His advice was simply that you should start off … Continue reading
Posted in Making, Meerkat
Tagged Adam Field, Carter Gillies, ceramics, clay, Dove Street Pottery, handles, hands on thinking, James Hake, Jeremy Steward, learning, making, meerkat, mugs, pottery, Research, Tony Clennell, tools
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Making as a Performance
Making by throwing or hand building is the only part of the process where the clay feels alive to me. As soon as it dries out to greenware, my love for it wanes. Generally all love is destroyed as it … Continue reading
Posted in Making, Meerkat
Tagged ceramics, clay, hands on thinking, live streaming, making as a performance, meerkat, perfomance, Theaster Gates
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The Rhythm of Making
One of the advantages of going back to a form of making I haven’t used much and I am not comfortable with gives me fresh insights into the making process, for me hand building is something I never really pushed … Continue reading
Posted in Making, Research
Tagged ceramics, clay, coils, hand building, hands on thinking, making, terracotta, touching
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