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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hello! I'm Samirah and I just joined Bluesky a few days ago.

I've been making nature inspired functional pottery in a range of styles for 13 years. Here are photos of past work. Recent work incorporates regional rocks and minerals into my clays and glaze.

#portfolioday
#ceramics #pottery

A close up of a sculpted porcelain skeleton with her hand on her skull. Embedded in clay that was sculpted to resemble a rocky, mossy surface.

Several desert inspired ceramic mugs wheel thrown using a tan clay with the lower exterior unglazed and featuring sculpted flowering cacti. The upper exterior is glazed in a sky blue.

My hand holding a porcelain mug with a sculpted, glazed dung beetle (and a ceramic ball of dung behind the beetle). The mug is glazed with a dark, sparkly aventurine glaze that I developed in 2019.

$Several porcelain clay pots sculpted to look rocky, with cacti or moss wedged into fractures in the clay surface. In the front is a ceramic basket form with a handle shaped like a hoodoo arch bridge. The interior is glazed deep turquoise.$

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you!!💗 I make a version with colors that are more true to the desert, but this color combo makes me happy

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 25d

My landscapes always look like they're at risk of collapsing. Want a little precariousness with your favorite beverage?

There's a band of igneous stones embedded and fired into the porcelain.

#ceramicart #ceramics #pottery #pottersofbluesky #ceramicsofbluesky #porcelain #geological #cacti #desert

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · May 17

Meet my Sky Islands clear glaze! The recipe consists of 90% locally scavenged calcium carb, quartz, and feldspar (1st photo). 2nd photo shows earlier attempts at making a clear desert mineral/rock glaze.

#geology #rocks #minerals #ceramics #ceramicglaze #glazenerd #pottersofbluesky #artprocess

A porcelain test tiles showing a clear glaze made from the minerals and rock just behind the tile.

Three porcelain test tiles in the foreground. Left to right: The left tile is a gritty primitive attempt at making a rock glaze using local materials. The middle tile is another attempt using local materials that created a tan, cracking glaze. The right tile is finally looking like a clear glaze! Yay!

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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · May 5

Stunning: A pair of emerging stars in Lynds 483 have sculpted this radiant, hourglass-shaped cloud of gas and dust.

In a few million years, each star could grow to match the Sun’s mass, leaving behind only a thin disk where planets might eventually take shape

(Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · May 1

Credit: @pablocarlosbudassi.bsky.social

Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 29

Over here sculpting rocks with rocks in the rocks.

#rocks #minerals #geology #ceramics #ceramic #workinprogress #potteryofbluesky #pottersofbluesky #ceramicstudio #desert #handmadecup #cactus #landscape

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · Apr 28

You look a little down, have a bowl of cosmos
#sciart

Bowl featuring star resembling CW Leonis and surrounding galaxies. (Side).

Bowl featuring star resembling CW Leonis and surrounding galaxies.

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MagDo @trematomus.bsky.social · Apr 28

For the fifth day of #Invertefest a minoan mashup cup, kamares ware outside, marine (and invertebrate) style inside.
#pottery, #ceramics

Black clay cup with a white and red waves and circles pattern outside, marine creature with shell and tentacles inside

Inside of a black clay cup with two white marine creatures with shell and tentacles on the two sides.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 27

Incredible photos.

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · Apr 27

Today I want to share with you all one of my favorite #MacroPhotos I have ever taken. On July 18th, 2014 I had a magical encounter with this #dragonfly, the Great Blue Skimmer, #Libellula vibrans and I was able to capture this focus stack.

#invertefest
#insects
#Photography
#MacroPhotography

A photo of the face of a dragonfly with intense blue eyes from the front. The large blue eyes mottled with black spots surround the roundly rectangular pale blue central face area. There is a small black triangle at the top of the face between the eyes where there are three small oceli, small primitive eyes.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 27

My mom used to make those kinds of mugs, with a surprise at the bottom, but with something cuter like a lil frog. A roach mug definitely appeals to a person's ridiculous, mischievous inner kid. Harmless fun, until the mug gets thrown against the wall.

Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 27

I have yet to hear from any customers about their piece meeting a violent end. Not yet...

Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 27

That's a real concern! I kept one of my roach bowls (it had a glaze flaw) and I use it to scoop packing peanuts into packages. Every now and then, I get that automatic recoil when I first open the bag of peanuts and catch a glance of the ceramic roach 😂 It's such an instinctual response.

Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 27

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks!

Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 27

The only scarab I have made is a dung beetle, with ball of dung of course. I have added gold luster, but have not tried any colorful metallics. That would look beautiful though!

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 27

Thank you!!

Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thank you 💕

Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 26

Happy to hear you like it :) This mug sold a few years ago. I haven't made roach mugs for over a year. Perhaps I should make a few for my next batch...

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 26

An older design to share for #InverteFest. Very few people enjoy seeing a #cockroach on a mug they're drinking from, which is why I just had to make these. Only a customer with a particular sense of humor brings this into their home.
#potteryofbluesky #ceramicmug #ceramics #wheelthrown #bugs #roach

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thank you so much💚

Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 26

Oh wow that is stunning! I bet you're brimming with new ideas...

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 25

Thanks for sharing ♡

Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 25

Thank you :)

Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 25

Thank you! It was fun trying to figure out how to depict those fragile legs/antennae.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 25

I can imagine, they don't understand that you're just trying to relocate them. I've always used a twig to help them flip back onto their legs when they get stuck on their backs. They just grab onto the twig.