Comments | pharminatrix: Galactic Pot-Healing: Part 1

pharminatrix

Galactic Pot-Healing: Part 1

Sep 20, 2007 16:11

What wheel throwing shares with math is that the distance between 0 and 1 is greater than the distance between any two other whole numbers. I haven't been near clay in six years and I missed it. Of course, what I remember fondly is the end of the two semesters, where I had hauled myself far enough up the learning curve to be creating. But there's ( Read more... )

badass, ceramics, prima materia, pottery, wheel throwing

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elnigma September 20 2007, 20:44:54 UTC

Awesome. :>

pharminatrix September 20 2007, 21:08:48 UTC

So how long have you been doing this again? Like, forever, right? What are your favorite things to make and what tends to frustrate/challenge you the most?

elnigma September 20 2007, 21:49:17 UTC

I just looked on the back of my first (handbuilt) piece - since 1-6-2004
I tend to make a lot of pots around the size of soup bowls, they tend to be the most useful around my kitchen and fit in the cupboard, and are fun. I'm not sure what's my favorite, I tend to have things of which I make a bunch with enthusiasm and then don't make for months. Usually other people enjoy goblets most. My frustration is I can't see as close or move as tiny and with the control that I would like or that I used to be able to do - physical issues. I think I would have loved to have started pottery younger.

pharminatrix September 20 2007, 21:56:30 UTC

I know that past the initial stages, I had the most problem reliably replicating forms. That's probably my first challenge. It may have been a matter of laziness/discipline in the past, so I'm going to see if I can get a handle on it this time around. Do you do both handbuilding and wheel-throwing?

lynchwalker September 21 2007, 01:17:04 UTC

What amazes me most is that someone else has read "The Galactic Pot-Healer".

pharminatrix September 21 2007, 02:25:37 UTC

I need to reread it. For some reason, it didn't sink in as well as his others. How's school?

lynchwalker September 21 2007, 12:38:58 UTC

Slightly harrowing, but it's chock full of most of the classes I'd rather not be taking. Not that they're terrible...far from it. It's just that I'd rather spend my attention on the things that truly interest me rather than prerequisite stuffs.

At the very least, I'm relearning things I haven't seen in a decade.