I don’t feel like I’ve accomplished a lot in the past few weeks, hence no blog posts. I have gotten to this point and I feel like I should speak to my audience a little before things go on. After much self-doubt and wondering about my future I have finally registered for Fall classes. Starting […]
On June 7, 2006 I opened a new blog on my ceramics website. I failed to originally mention it here, consider this your announcement. The blog is of a more technical nature and is located at http://www.claymentality.net/blog. The new blog will contain the more technical aspects of my ceramic work, but I intend to still […]
In the past few weeks I have had to do a lot of seeking in myself to find a way to pull myself out of a fog I had been in since about the middle of spring. During the past two weeks I have reached my absolute lowest points, looking forward to very little, snapping […]
Last night I completed a variety of throws, including two of an unusual height. The pieces were at 9.5 and 10.5 inches when they were removed from the wheel. After trimming one was at 10 inches and the other was just below 9 inches. These are my first throws to be above 8 inches in […]
Its been several weeks since I have touched my blogs. Where have I been? What was I doing? What were my feelings while I was doing it? I don’t have a fucking clue. I have been mostly ignoring any concept of outward expression lately, in favor of a more silent and closed life. I have […]
On Tuesday evening my new electronic balance (Ohaus CS2000) arrived, the final piece of the puzzle for making glazes. I began with 5 simple recipies, of which I used 4 and then made my own 6th. Test Glaze #1 (not used) – converted from a lead-based recipe, but not attempted in this batch. Test Glaze […]
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.- Aristotle
If becoming who you want to be means that you have to give up everything you love, then it probably isn’t who you want to be.
The heart is a swirling mass of conflicting emotions. Flowing between self-preservation, caring for people who are special in our lives and the decision proccess that often falls between those two places. One must find the proper balance between the two to have a happy life. Humans are socially dynamic, which creates a situation where […]
I sit here in my room crying as I look back on the past few months of my life. In just a few weeks I have managed to alienate myself from my friends, exclude myself from family events and almost entirely ignore my academic responsibilities. It is a lonely feeling when you realize there is […]