BOWLS AND VASES

One of my favorite methods of working in any medium and especially ceramics is to work a form to death. What I mean by that is to explore as many possibilities of a specific form or concept in as many ways possible on a daily basis. This may include changing clay bodies, cutting it up and putting it back together, changing mediums, alternate firing methods, etc…

Talent is an overused word in any art conversation. I believe in practice, hard work, and a schedule. “Art is work” and “Work begets work”, Jeffrey Mitchell. With that in mind, you must show up err’day and put in the “work” to accomplish something worthy, and make the work, work. Treating art as a job does not diminish its’ significance or beauty, instead it imbues the work with a sense of history, progress, and inevitability.

I used to be a painter, and I still get a bit jealous that 2-d artists hog all of the wall space. So, the painted interiors, wall hanging bowls helped me work though some of my gallery white wall trauma…