I just saw the shows in the gallery and now I'm musing about pottery

[29pixie]

So I just saw Landa and Meg's senior art shows, and I must commend my fellow ceramistas, because they were astounding. I look around my room at my little pots and say to myself, "dang, I'm not creative at all," even though I am very proud of them. I saw Doug in there and while I was standing with my mouth agape at Landa's 1st piece (which I wish I had the money to buy) he told me, "See! You should have been an art major!" and then said "But it's too hard!" and reminded me that I'd once said that too him. I think if in another life, if I got to do it all over again and try something new, that I might have made a good art major. For my senior show I would have loved to make really delicate thin pieces in translucent porcelain, graceful vases and bottles in calm light colors like pale blues and whites with light shining right through them. I know I made the right choice in my majors now, but there's a little part of me that screams out to do more art and stay involved with ceramics for the rest of my life. When I settle down somewhere I want to buy a nice wheel and a baby kiln and some nice white clay and glaze ingredients.

But anyway the shows were SOOOOOO fantastically creative and inspiring, and each was very different. Landa's was so vibrant and emotional, and Meg's was so graceful. I'm so impressed and I am so glad I spent like an hour in there this morning. For as much as I roll my eyes when art majors talk about the meaning in their ceramics sometimes, I could really see and feel it. That "meaning" they were talking about and striving for, that I once thought was rather silly, was so palpable. I'm so proud of them.