That shit I like

Documenting my love for/experience with ceramics. I will cite any work that does not belong to me.

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Katsumi Machimura

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cups

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Yoko Sekino-Bové “Pants on fire” teapot, Genuine Fake China series, 2011

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Yoko Sekino-Bové

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These are so beautiful! i am in luv.

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Weimar Crafts of the Bauhaus 1919-1924: an early experiment in industrial design

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Javier Martinez Mendez’ story is an interesting one. Javier was a full time mechanic/gardner in Nuevo Casas Grande and started  potting just a few years ago. This year,  the annual juried show held by the state of Chihuahua (The Concourso) awarded Javier 1st Prize for his class (scribed pots) propelling his to a new recognition for this young Mata Ortiz potter. 

Javier is the first Mata Ortiz potter to use the Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) theme. After hand forming the pots (typical of all Mata Ortiz pottery) Javier coats the pots with  dark coating, then burns them on an open fire (also typical of all Mata Ortiz pottery) to “fix” the color. His etching tools are nothing more than common nails sharpened to a fine point. 

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Michelle Summers, Mug

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Ahmed Mater: Magnetism (2012)

The idea is simple and, like its central element, forcefully attractive. Ahmed Mater gives a twist to a magnet and sets in motion tens of thousands of particles of iron, a multitude of tiny satellites that forms a single swirling nimbus. Even if we have not taken part in it, we have all seen images of the Hajj, the great annual pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca. Ahmed’s black cuboid magnet is a small simulacrum of the black-draped Ka’bah, the ‘Cube’, that central element of the Meccan rites. His circumambulating whirl of metallic filings mirrors in miniature the concentric tawaf of the pilgrims, their sevenfold circling of the Ka’bah.

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Faisa Sharif, Somali Incense Holders, cone 10 reduction firing 

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Faisa Sharif, inlaid slip, woodfired

drawings by Valerie Fanarjian

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Megan Mitchell

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Megan Mitchell

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Rachel K. Garceau

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Somali woman with uunsi

once again you can see the panelling and carvings on top and sides. This one has two handles and I actually think it's probably more practical so I'll so that with the open top Ithin. 

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If you’re Somali or Arab etc… you know this lol 

I’m kind of obsessed with uunsi!  

Made one like this already, an ithin w/ out a top and i wanna decorate it similarly w/ a flat handle and the panelling. 

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another metal ithin. 

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And the Classic, ithin w/ top and panelling, carvings, and one handle. I'm tryna make 2 of this type for my final project.