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As is oft the case, I have been tardy on my updates. But I have been busy and potting. I went out around the city at the peak of autumn and took pictures that will inspire some autumn pots. I am still making pots. I can't stop making! I just can't do it- I have too many things that have to be realized. For example, I see the autumn landscape and have to throw some appropriately shaped pots for those images. I printed up 8 of these autumn photos tht will provide inspiration when I start glazing. Hopefully they will get made within the next year.



I was asked to provide a show of tiles for a local community college where the ceramics department was focusing on making tiles. I took 50 or so tiles off my bathroom wall and put them in one case...











and I filled the case right next to it with a sampling of my tiles.



















I may have told you that I actively pursue astronaut autographs. I had the Media Center at Johnson space Center print up a number of Apollo photos that I have always admired. Well, I have been sending those photos out to various astronauts and requesting signatures. Generally you have to pay. I had this photo that Charlie Duke took during the Apollo 16 mission. He took a photo of his family, put it on the moon's surface and took a photo of the photo. I always wondered what he was thinking when he did that. I had some photos printed of that moon photo and sent them to Charlie Duke and asked for his signature. I also asked if it would be possible for him to write on the photo why he did what he did. I also had the nerve to ask if his pictured family might sign it as well. Guess what? He did it!!! (He only had his wife Patty sign it because the kids are grown and out of the house.) Well, I feel indebted to Charlie and made a plate for him that is a depiction of that event on the moon's surface. (My plate is pictured in that link.) Pictured below is my shipping container that includes a camera, pen, tape, postage and shipping labels. I make as easy as possible for the signer.







A kiln load of snakes!



I am now making porcelain pots and had to clean all my tools and bats. Stoneware- the Venom pots- has iron in it and I don't want resulting iron spots in my pure white porcelain.



I am throwing a number of these pots that will ultimately become wisteria pots. I envision them as 3-D with applied vines and raised flowers and I expect these pots to have lids- like ginger jars- that will have a Japanese architectural theme about them. I have the idea, now I just have to give the idea the time required to make it real.



I was rooting through a bunch of saved pots looking for something to sell on ebay. I came across these two Dragonfly pots. I think I will refire the big one on the right and might just sell the other on ebay. Is it possible someone will pay what I want?



As always, I am making a number of more functional things in the Mingei tradition. Mingei is basically pottery meant to be used and appreciated on a daily basis. It is a Japanese tradition. I make mugs...



yunomis- teabowls- essentially cups without handles...



bowls...



bowls made in the American "Yelloware" tradition...



and I have been making some of my Moby Dick necklaces.






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