Now I can fly, but I can’t figure out how to land. I am finding that now that my pot-throwing technique is improving, I am still having difficulty in the area of removing a finished piece from the wheel head. I have considered going back to bat-throwing, but at this time I feel like I […]
Nothing too fancy, but I like it. Straight across from the wheel, typical observer point of view This is more from the point of view as I see a piece when it is on the wheel. The splash pan is visible in this shot, I am a little messy, but I have seen worse. This […]
I have only 3 more lectures left in my MWF classes, and only one left for my Thursday class (Plato). That means I have 3 hours left with each course. I have changed a lot in some aspects since August 2004, but in some ways, not at all. I have rejoined some old hobbies, and […]
This piece almost didn’t happen. It started off as an overly moist ball of white stoneware that was sliding on the wheel. By the right combination of forces the piece stablized and snapped into PERFECT CENTER. That means that a hand pressed against the roating side wasn’t moving and neither was the one placed on […]
All of my academic life I am used to there being certain people I can count on to make me feel “at home” in my curriculum. I was worried that I wouldn’t find this at UNCC after last semester, but I am now begining to find my niche and fit in with certain people and […]