Appreciated. Feels good to hold a thing like that

Thanks I feel a little ambivalent about slamming vulgarity right up against grandeur, tho

It just takes time. An opportunity to learn patience

I like to joke, too. Sorry if I came off snarky

It's also my maker's mark

The dimple? Functionally, when you look at and pick up a drinking vessel, you don't want to be visually bored or get tactilely sidetracked by the unrelieved smoothness and drop your beer. More importantly, I'm not just stretching a canvas, I want a pot to live, and everything organic needs a scar

I use a flashing porcelain, but it warps too much as a body in wood to use it other than for closed forms, if you want to avoid tears and swearing. So of course I still will make open forms like bowls and plates with it. Lots of crying and cussing 'round here

The tallest is 7 in./17.75 cm. Under a lb. still wet. Bmix would def be easier to move than S182, but no warping in the anagama with 182. Figure I'll get the feel back in another day or two, the clay will move just by looking at it, hah, hah, hah

Thanks. Agree on the form being troublesome. The clay body I'm using has to be just the right consistency, and the centering must be exact. Repetition the only solution I've found. Getting back there, day by day

Nice one

Now I'm salivating for crab fugu

Thanks. Cleared the land in the spring of 2022. Put in the foundation and started laying brick that summer, built the kiln shed over the half-finished kiln that autumn. Finished the kiln including chimney in the summer of 2023. Built out my pottery that fall. First firing: June 2024

I imagine that, if you put the aligned particles under a microscope, they would look like the plates in my video, just a little smaller 😉

Yes, "compress." Quotes because that's what it feels like, as you throw down. You likely know that "throw" is from Old English "þrāwan" (yes, the first letter is a "thorn"), pronounced, as far as I can tell, "throwin." Meaning, to twist. You twist the clay, so all the tiny plate-like particles align