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It takes me at least a couple of hours to decorate a pot this size. I brush three layers of terra sigillata into each section, alternating the different types of clay in a rhythmic symmetry. Then I’ll bisque fire the pot, apply glaze and fire one last time. I haven’t made as much progress this week as I would have liked so I may end up working a bit this weekend, which is something I try to avoid. Have a good weekend, everyone.
#pottery #clay #ceramics #WIP #timelapse #keramik #wildclay
#timelapse #wip #pottery #ceramics #clay #wildclay #keramik

I'm prepping for tomorrow's workshop with UnidosNow, a local Hispanic/Latinx org that has been shaken by the recent wave of deportations and has decided that working with #clay would be a grounding, healing activity to help cope with that reality.

Before the hands-on clay part, I'll share photos of the #Taíno potter I met in #PuertoRico when we visited in 2023. #AliceChéverez of Morovis carries on the ancient art of her people, passed on to her by her mother. #alttext #Indigenous #ceramics

Potter Alice Cheverez, a brown skinned woman with her dark hair pulled back, wearing a tube top and jean shorts, stands behind a round wooden table that has pieces of her unfired pottery and ripening avocados sitting on it. There's a yellow wall and various items in the background. Additional info: Alice learned pottery from her mother, but her mother learned from a Taino cultural preservationist and archaeologist Daniel Silva, from Vieques.
Alice's hands at her work table, rolling a coil of clay with her palms. A small cup of fresh clay, the beginning of a new pot, sits on the table in front of her. In the background there is a a small blue plastic bin, a lump of clay, a maraca and a clay figure she's already made.
A finished piece that has not yet been fired. It is still the tan color of unfired clay. The piece is a deep bowl with geometric patterns carved along the front and back and small iguana figures on both sides. It is a good representative example of Taino pottery. The photograph is in portrait mode with everything but the pot blurred in the background.
A table full of fired pottery. There are about a dozen pieces of different size and shape, mostly bowl forms with anthropomorphic figures attached to both sized, a common motif in Taino pottery. The unfired tan clay (from previous photo) has transformed to a brick red, with spots of black where the carbon from the smoke has entered the clay.
#indigenous #AltText #ceramics #puertorico #clay #taino #alicecheverez

New teaset that I made, just out of my kiln :) #clay #ceramics #pottery #art #mastoart
handmade teapot with two cups to match
#art #mastoart #pottery #ceramics #clay

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