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It's fun to see all my work grouped together. Kinda looks like some strange garden. It gives me good ideas for future projects.

Bisque firing my work for the wood kiln. I fire my work twice. This first time to harden the clay so I can glaze it, and second is the glaze fire, in this case, the wood fire.

Chopped wood today, again. It takes teams of people working many six hour shifts to chop enough wood to fire the anagama kiln. Every wood fired piece of ceramics has so many more hours of work put into it's existence.
This wood is a fuel source and a glaze. The kiln gets so hot, the silica within the wood melts and turns to glass.
#woodfire #chopping #glaze #ceramics #craft

Falling movement. Balance.

Collaborations with the magic being, @jennifersuekaplan

This piece was coated with a matte glaze and fired in a soda kiln. During the fire, sodium vapor flowed through the kiln. Wherever it touched the mug, the glaze melted and turned blue. The sodium vapor fluxed the glaze and produced these colors. Instead of the classic flashing typically produced in a soda fire, you get color changes in the glaze. The glaze often runs off the bottom of the foot due to the melt and I grind the hardened glass/glaze off after the firing.

The colors of soda fired ceramics✨

Just finished my first critique of grad school. I embraced the anxiety that comes along with the experience as a natural part of the package. Feeling it and letting it flow through me, instead of putting up a loosing fight against it. Learning from it all and making progress.
This piece is in progress, an additional piece in my ever evolving aesthetic. My aesthetic is in progress, in my ever evolving life. Always a student, no matter where I go or how old I get.

The piece on the right is the last I make with totally spontaneity for a while. I am transitioning to working from sketches and reworking previously made forms. Like everyone, coming to new conclusions and fine tuning my personal aesthetic.

This piece was constructed mainly with spontaneity. There was no sketch, no expectations, no idea of the size or direction it would go. Every coil I added seemed to choose it's own direction. It was a dance, an experiment, a collaboration with gravity and the structural integrity of clay. It's not the best thing I've ever made but that's okay. I'm not afraid to make bad work, I'm not afraid to take risks. If it doesn't work out I don't need to look at it, I can always make another. The important thing here is that I am learning, progressing, and having fun.
Like dancing sometimes its scary to engage, sometimes your clumsy, sometimes your graceful. You go forward into the unknown and no matter what happens you can leave satisfied knowing you gave it your best shot, and that's all that matters.

Form and function. Yin and Yang.

Working in the studio at Pottery Northwest in Seattle. The plastic behind me are student projects, wrapped up waiting for another day. I would like to continue working in community studios because of the people. The life of an artist can be solitary and I don't want that. Art is nice but people are more important. Photo by @roman__zlobin .
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#studio #ceramics #clay #potterynorthwest #wheelthrown #craft #maker #craftsposure #visualsgang #maker #makersgonnamake #makersmovement #instapottery #potsinaction #stoneware #handcraft #handmade #work #teacher #student #community #people #human

The weekend has left me feeling grateful. Grateful for everything! To name a few things; friends, family, nature, art, and health. Through all the highs and lows, the feeling of gratitude will always carry me through. Visited the conservatory in Chicago, got a bike tour of the city from a fellow clay brain, Jenn, met with Chris Gustin and his wife Nancy Train Smith at their show at Lillstreet Art center. Oh yeah, made a detour to the Indiana Dunes on the way home. Word to my fellow grad students, get out side and live your life! Your work will benefit. Your life also comes first, work second. That seemingly obvious thought is easy to forget when your hard at work in the studio. I'm also talking to myself here because I spend unhealthy amounts of time in the studio all too often. .
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#life #gratitude #nature #fish #ceramics #art #gradlife #ceramics #mfa #chicago #lillstreet #work

I won this mug on a dare to eat a heaping spoon of hot sauce. Turns out, the sauce wasn't even that hot. @lynnehobaica stuck to her word though, and gave me this horned iguana mug😁🦎☕ .
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#mugshotmonday #céramique #ceramica #ceramics #keramik #clay #pottery #craft #maker #iguana #coffee #mug #cup #handmade #handcraft

Altering a freshly thrown bottle. I start by taking it out of round and into oval by pinching two opposite sides. Then I push the walls back in the same areas I pinched. The only tool you need is a flexible metal rib to bend the walls into place. .
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#pottery #ceramics #clay #craft #maker #wheelthrown #thrownandaltered #process #potteryvideos #design #keramik @potsinaction #vase #stoneware #ceramica #craftsposure

After a few humbling days of failure, I'm back to my happy place on the wheel. Maybe this will be a jug? .
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#ifeelsolamewhenihashtag #humility #ceramica #ceramics #pottery #clay #craft #wip #maker #process #design #vase #wheelthrown #thrownandaltered #keramik @insta_pottery #gratitude #craftsposure #stoneware ##céramique #notredame #mfa #gradlife #gradschool #research

Here's a thing I did with the blues scale. Trying to figure out why expressing myself with music feels so much more vulnerable than expressing myself with clay. Trying to get over that, trying to hone new skills. I'm trying. -
#blues #riff #guitar #practice #vulnerable #music #acousticguitar #melody #bluescale #trying #expression #art #sound

This is what I'm doing in school. So grateful for this opportunity. -
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Just finished making this bowl. Now onto drying, then, firing. I'll let you know how it goes. -
#ceramicbowl #ceramica #ceramics #keramic #céramique #clay #craft #maker #pottery #mfa #handmade #handcraft #stoneware #notredameceramics

I made this around 3 years ago during my undergrad at Northern Arizona University. The glaze is VC Matte, wood fired and reduce cooled in a train kiln. Can't wait to try this glaze out again here at Notre Dame. .
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