Ceramics - so I took your advice! On Monday, Gregory from the Brew Craft workshop said that brewing beer is like making art sighting examples of “throwing a pot” or “writing poetry”. I’ve written poetry for a while, but I think the art and grant writing world have kinda straightened out my forms a bit. I decided last night, to transform one of my Christmas presents, a digital camera into something analog- a ceramics class with a new, dear friend. So, yesterday after an exciting meeting I ventured to the Asian Art Museum to check out a Korean ceramics show to see if I would find any inspiration. Here’s a piece by a contemporary artist who works kind of not knowing what she’ll build as she gilts and glues together pieces that would normally seem like “failures” or “discards”. It’s a beautiful way to view challenges in life and shifting the paradigm of rejection into something awesome. I was quite surprised by my first handling of the clay at our initial class last night and even though I think I entered the class with a preconception that I wouldn’t make anything utilitarian, I’ve now generated a list of objects I’m excited to make and share. The Korean ceramics show “Poetry in Clay” ends at the Asian Art Museum January 9th. So, if you’d like to check out some trompe l’oeil vases made of soap and this sculpture pictured here that resembles how soap bubbles stick together… vamoose!

Ceramics - so I took your advice!

On Monday, Gregory from the Brew Craft workshop said that brewing beer is like making art sighting examples of “throwing a pot” or “writing poetry”. I’ve written poetry for a while, but I think the art and grant writing world have kinda straightened out my forms a bit. I decided last night, to transform one of my Christmas presents, a digital camera into something analog- a ceramics class with a new, dear friend. So, yesterday after an exciting meeting I ventured to the Asian Art Museum to check out a Korean ceramics show to see if I would find any inspiration. Here’s a piece by a contemporary artist who works kind of not knowing what she’ll build as she gilts and glues together pieces that would normally seem like “failures” or “discards”. It’s a beautiful way to view challenges in life and shifting the paradigm of rejection into something awesome.

I was quite surprised by my first handling of the clay at our initial class last night and even though I think I entered the class with a preconception that I wouldn’t make anything utilitarian, I’ve now generated a list of objects I’m excited to make and share.

The Korean ceramics show “Poetry in Clay” ends at the Asian Art Museum January 9th. So, if you’d like to check out some trompe l’oeil vases made of soap and this sculpture pictured here that resembles how soap bubbles stick together… vamoose!

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