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ID:   945

TITLE:   Pottery Blog
URL:   http://potteryblog.com/

Category:   Arts: Ceramic Arts: Blogs and Forums

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DETAILS DESCRIPTION:  I get lost in each piece that I make. When I’m throwing a piece nothing is more important than the gesture of the form. When I’m decorating the form, the mark of the brush carries the weight of the world. While the world fades away, I think about someone using the piece over time and continuously discovering different nuanced aspects of the form and surface. The movement of the throwing line, the boldness of a brushstroke or the juxtaposition of the raw clay and the gloss of the glaze. When a kiln is unloaded and rows of pots are lined up, it might look like they are simply multiples of a form. But when I am making them, the curve and movement of each piece is obsessed over. And after they are fired, each piece is completely one of a kind to me. The flow of the flame on the surface of the pot and the way that the subtitles of the form are enhanced by the firing process always inspires me.


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    pottery blog: emily murphy

    a successful first bisque

    I wrote this post just over a month ago, but for some reason, I never posted it. So here it goes (and there is more to follow). ___________________________________ I’m declaring my first bisque firing a success. I have never been so excited to fire a bisque before. But after more than a year of producing [...]

    My new L&L kiln

    Can you tell I’m excited? After being without a kiln for the last 11 month, I finally got my kiln! It’s an L&L Davinci x3236-D Automatic. I have been asked many times how I chose my kiln. It is a huge decision to make, so I wanted to share my thought process and maybe it’ll [...]

    Studio Potter Newsletter: A New Community of Potters

    Studio Potter has a monthly newsletter! The amazing Molly Hatch (I seriously covet her work…) is the editor and she asked me to write something for it inspired by the theme of their upcoming issue: “Boundaries and the Digital World.” Studio Potter Magazine played a big part of getting me hooked on clay. There was always [...]

    A New Sense of Normal

    This post is a very personal one. It’s one that I’ve been wanting to write for more than two years but it’s been too hard, and although I’ve attempted, I’ve never gotten through it before. This is not about clay, but it helps to explain why I sometimes disappear from writing for periods of time. [...]

    NCECA Pre-Conference: Making Through Living—Living Through Making: Studio Pottery in 2010

    A few months ago, when I heard about the pre-conference happening before NCECA, Making Through Living—Living Through Making: Studio Pottery in 2010, my thought was- ‘I have to be there’. Then I read the list of presenters and once again thought- ‘I really need to be there!’ But, the reality is that I can’t make [...]





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