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MFA thesis 2021 - Proximity Promo Final

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel--everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire. -Mary MacLane.

Half-carved honeysuckle pitcher in pink porcelain. I can't wait til it's fired & the flora glows translucent.

Porcelain is really humbling - it always lets me know when i've gone too far, cut too thin, added too much color and flux and fired too high. When I push it, it always pushes back.

The lightest piece in the lightest lavender, ready for clean up. #cutclay #porcelain #lavender #honey #honeycomb #lightfixture #vessel #wip #art #handmade #pots #patterns

#lightfixture #art #pots #porcelain #handmade #lavender #honey #patterns #cutclay #wip #vessel #honeycomb

Drying out beautifully. #ombre #blue #porcelain #seafan #cutclay

#blue #cutclay #porcelain #ombre #seafan

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Getting foreign tourists to STOP in Japan could cost the government 25 billion yen ($214 million).

That’s how much it would cost to replace an estimated 1.7 million stop signs across the nation with a more global design so visitors can actually understand them.