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Laurence of a Labia

@laurencemf.bsky.social

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Interdisciplinary Artist currently making ceramics & occasionally working on fiber arts (embroidery). Gardener. Baking enthusiast (bread). BPD. Queer. NB. Northwestern MN. No gods, no masters. (she/they) 😼🖤🔥

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 2d

My 2nd Substack piece! I touch on sexuality, gender & the importance of physical fitness & getting dirty. Also pottery, embroidery, image transfer/printing & the amalgamations into mixed-media. I’m using this space to organize & archive my creative process in longform, but include a lot of pictures.

Past, Present and Pornography.

Getting romantic about clay, and bodies, and clay-bodies…and embroidery. I discuss where I'm at in my artistic practice while laying more background and offering images of past work. CW - sex/nudity.

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 10d

Found cactus!! Saw cool rocks 🤩

A photo of Sioux Quartzite covered in vegetation, lichen and a patch of wild cactus.

Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 10d

*Big Sky by Orville Peck plays*

Southern corner of Minnesota.

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 10d

Peets!! 😸
Excited to see the colors on that wavy grid pot 🔥

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 11d

Mood.

Looks like we had our first hard frost this morning. It was a good season! I wish there were more tomatoes though.

Backyard view from the cattio, decorated in synthetic, orange spiderweb. There's a cat on a table next to a chair. Out in the yard, a layer of frost is visible on the grass. The trees are yellow and the sun is rising.

A record player is playing G_d's Pee at State's End! by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The album cover is propped against the wall. In the upper left of the image there's an abstract oil painting with deep reds and yellow. It has intentionally been hung upside down.

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 19d

Heh heh heh...
A new kiln showed up in my garage today. 😎

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 19d

This week's sketch:

Ink sketch of "a smiling indigenous Palestinian mother holding her child, 1920.

Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 20d

It's not perfect, but it's done!

Newly laid circular patio of mostly repurposed brick. Should I replace the obvious red one? 😅

Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 20d

Today I'm finally starting the "patio" for my Raku kiln. I've already been to Menard's and hauled in 400lbs of sand and pea gravel. It's going to be cute AF tho.

Yesterday I expanded the flower and strawberry bed in the back another four feet outwards. I need more berries!

A circular pattern of bricks. Because I'm using brick that's already on site and I don't like math, I laid out the design prior to digging and leveling the ground. Some might recall that I lit the yard on fire after firing the Raku kiln this past spring due to dry conditions and negligence on my part, hence the desire to prevent that going forward and creating a permanent patio space to beautify the yard.

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 20d

*My Girls by Animal Collective plays*

Today's fit check.

Portrait of the artist before a trip to Menard's. The belt buckle says "Metal Muncher."

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 20d

Finally unloaded the bisque kiln the other day. The timing is pretty good considering the new kiln should be arriving in the next day or two. 🤩😱

Piles of bisqueware sitting on a plastic utility shelf. Lots of bowls in this batch. Some small planters, composters, donut vase and hanging votive display also in the mix.

Workbench! A lot of this bisqueware will be Raku fired.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 23d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 25d

That's just an optical illusion! 🤣😉

Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 25d

A packed bisque load is firing in the ol' Duncan today. 👍🔥

Overview of an electric kiln full of dried greenware.

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 25d

*Gotta Get Up by Harry Nilsson plays*

Self-portrait of the artist in a narrow mirror, drinking coffee in a yellow robe and shirt, with no pants on.

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · 27d

I've been doing drawings from screenshots of the genocide in Palestine off and on for the past two years. Here's this week's sketch.

Ink sketch of Palestinian men in Gaza carrying body bags. Their faces are grief stricken and starved.

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The Northern Mirror & RRCC @thenorthernmirror.bsky.social · Oct 4

Inforum: Data centers are sprouting across North Dakota. How many are there & where will the next ones be planted?
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Such a shallow piece, typical Inforum reporting. Where is the energy & water coming from that they utilize? Consequences?

Fuck AI.
*screaming into the void continues*

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 29

U.S. Border Patrol agents tried and failed to detain a man in downtown Chicago (via Christopher Sweat)

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · Sep 28

Not sure if anyone will be interested in reading this drivel but I need to take up more space on the Internet.

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Dear Substack,

Here I go again.

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · Sep 27

Thanks! I made the cake stand special for that show (but had a back up piece ready, just in case). Shipping it wasn't cheap so seeing it make the promo is gratifying 😆

Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · Sep 27

My cobalt cake stand was accepted into this show at the Belger in Kansas City, and they used it in their promo image! 🤩😱

If you're in the area please visit in October and send me photos.

belgerarts.org/put-a-lid-on...

Promo image showing a colorful collection of lidded vessels for an upcoming show at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery
(2011 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64108), opening October 3, 2025.

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Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · Sep 24

Workbench scenes. I don't really know what the point of this is yet. In a pretty messed up rollercoaster headspace. I've got a length of maybe six feet that I hope to fit into my next Raku firing. Attaching chains to pots isn't the most original but it does seem like a direction this could go. #clay

Chain made out of buff stoneware. I guess I'm into repetition and process, in relation to the body/mind as it creates overtime, if that makes any sense. There's also something interesting about the chain itself, even if it's a little obvious. I'm aware of the things that bind me here to this place and time. I'm still procrastinating on organizing and streamlining my go-bag and escape plans.

(My edible has kicked in, I'm rambling).

I'm supposed to be working on "bee cups" and there are a few in the background, but I just feel like making. More. Chain.

Several small lengths of chain on a table, with various tools and bee cups in the background.

Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · Sep 21

Made five pints of salsa verde today. The tomatillos came in like crazy this year! I even gave some away. The squirrels took plenty as well. Made a couple pints of pickled carrots from my tiny carrots too.

Okra has also done really well this summer. We seasoned this bowl full and roasted them.

In the foreground, a pint jar with bright orange carrot pieces in brine and to the left, several jars of salsa verde. They are cooling on a cotton towel after being canned in a hot water bath.

Above shot of small white bowl of uncooked, green okra.

Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · Sep 18

It's been tough returning to the grind this week. I'd like to share more about the experience. It was surreal in an uplifting and fantastic sort of way (I didn't even take shrooms!). Anyway, I think I might start posting on Substack soon, if I can find the time.

Laurence of a Labia @laurencemf.bsky.social · Sep 18

I had the opportunity last week to attend a MdW gathering at Itasca State Park, MN. We stayed at the college research station & were able to canoe & bike. There were workshops & beautiful hikes. Woodland Pottery from the White Earth Reservation did a wood-firing with their naturally harvested clay.

Clay Play using harvested clay from the White Earth Reservation.

Cast iron pan full of small, wood-fired clay pieces. A second pan still under the coals.

The most magical fucking view of artistic cohorts sitting by a fire near Lake Itasca at sunset.

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