First Year Ceramic Ignorance Bliss

I’m cleaning my studio and found this thing I made in my first ceramic class. I remember being so embarrassed that it didn’t work so I put it away on a high shelf. My goal at the time was to make a kinetic piece entirely out of clay and have it go through a glaze fire completely assembled. 🙀😂 I used nichrome wire encased in clay for the rod that threads all the parts together. I think it may have been more successful at cone 6. It was fired at cone 10 reduction ‘cause that is what the studio fired. I may have to revisit this idea of a kinetic piece again. I’m actually pretty impressed that I tried to do something like this in my first class. I was completely ignorant of how clay works and perhaps I wouldn’t have tried something so ambitious. 😂 I never showed the instructor. I didn’t want her to think I was crazy. If you want to see it in action check out my Instagram post and listen to a delightful scraping sound.

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From 2003 to roughly 2012 I kept a blog called Joybucket. I loved blogging and met so many nice people from all over the world. Slowly, Instagram and Facebook started taking up my time and I stopped blogging which was a shame. I traded quality content for instant gratification and quantity. Instead of a steady healthy diet feeding my mind I stuffed my eyeballs with GMO sugary snack nuggets that stained my fingers and all that they touched. Insta & Facebook are addictive brain junk food when the real meat, the real, fulfilling, nourishing, brain food is the forgotten exercise of the blog. This is my attempt at discipline. This is my go at dusting of the cobwebs and reuniting with old neurons. I think I smell ozone. Cat photo for attention.
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