Built a bag wall inside the IUS wood kiln.

Slowing down this week…not burning out, but refocusing. It’s time to:

Throughout my undergrad I never interacted with porcelain a lot. I was still struggling with stoneware and I didn’t want to add onto my learning curve with porcelain.

Something just clicked this week—my productivity is up and my mind is racing with new ideas.

Autumn and I had a great time installing and the show really came together. The Space Lab was a great room to install in. Nice and cozy.

This past week I took a break from making. I was out of clay and there were other pressing matters:

Last week’s soda firing yielded some not so great results. However, even through failure, I learned a lot of about the materials.

Not a lot of new information this week. Many projects are wrapping up and the last step for all of them is the next soda firing. What to do but to prepare for that firing and jump into the next round of making.

It’s been a more productive week than last, in the sense of actual pot production.

I am not showing any works-in-progress this week because I really do not have anything to show.

One key difference I noted right away was that the kiln atmosphere was more soda rich.

I helped out some friends (Carly and Molly) with there show installation. And…oh boy was there tomfoolery to be had.

Over the past week, I compiled a list of goals to work on throughout the fall semester.

First day checklist: Introduction icebreakers, Syllabus review, Existential dread about the semester