Potters Problems

Every potter contains those problems that irk us all... from being off center to crawling in the kiln, we all feel.

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Potters Problem #1

That sighing moment when you pull a beautifully thrown piece out of the kiln glazed in Peacock Green, but forget to leave a foot so it crawls... That's a problem...

[steigerthetiger-deactivated2017]

Yea so my one surviving tea pot turned out really well. #time#for#tea#teapot#ceramics#original#rutile#zircopax#glaze#experiment#art

[leviyastrow]

Bottles

[nicholasskaggs-deactivated20190]

Alli and her craft.

[nomoreliesforme]

My teapot is finally done! Southern Indian inspired teapot. Dark floating blue (it looks like blue jeans). It has a capacity of 6 cups of water. The glaze was air brushed.

[stsyart]

ceramic jewerly box

artwork by stassio

[stsyart]

ceramic sugar pot

artwork by Stassio

[stsyart]

Vase

artwork by stassio

[algerianculture]

Algeria : Tizi Ouzou, pottery #3 by foto_morgana on Flickr.

[imarobotforreal-deactivated2013]

“In 1982 I watched an interview on Canada AM (a morning television news magazine) with an archeologist who claimed that we would soon be able to listen to sounds captured within ancient pottery. His theory was that jugs and vases being formed on a pottery wheel inadvertently absorbed sounds in the immediate vicinity and, like Edison wax cylinders, could be played back. His claims have now been debunked, but the notion of soft clay acting as a viable recording surface has stayed with me and with knowledge recently gained working with phonographs, I have now created ceramic objects in which sound is an inherent part of their form.

Working with Carolynn Pynn-Trudeau, a highly accomplished ceramicist, recording sessions were set up in her pottery studio. Live sound performances were scratched into the surface of leather-hard vase shapes by way of a megaphone and stylus apparatus, similar to Edison’s first sound recording mechanism. The vases were then fired and finished.

The resulting vases are curious objects. The sounds etched into the surface are simple and easily conceived, so when one considers Vase with Sound of Child Voice, the sound in our heads is transposed onto the object supplanting the physical essence of the object. Of course, the sound is there and sometime far in the future when our digital record is so much ether, then an archeologist may well be able to listen to these vases.

Whenever possible, the shape of a vessel had a coincidental recording. For example, an urn shape was etched with the sound of water pouring. A second urn was etched with a recitation of Keats’ Ode to a Grecian Urn.” -Adrian Gollner on his series Vase Recordings  I am in love with this man’s ideas. Looking through his heartbreakingly innovative series ‘Clock Drawings’ made me cry a little… /sigh