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Goals For the Semester
My Pueblo pot because I had so much fun working with a piece that was much bigger than we had usually been working with. I also really enjoyed working with the technical aspects of coiling. Overall, it was one of the best-looking pieces I made in ceramics, and I had a bunch of fun making it.
When I look at ceramic pieces, the one thing I like looking at is how interesting some of the forms people create can get. Last year, one thing I tried to do with every piece was create some kind of focal point of the piece using its form. I also get a lot of inspiration from what I see classmates working on and their ideas to fuel my piece in my own way.
One skill I would like to develop is the use of the wheel and understanding how to use it to create pieces. Another skill I would like to strengthen is my glazing skills. This is the one thing I struggle with in ceramics and find challenging, and I hope to improve more in this class
One process I think could be very fun is the speakers, from what I've heard and seen, they look like a lot of fun to create.
Final Reflection
For me, the piece I'm most proud of is my Raku-fired pieces. Going into this project, I had no idea what to do or what my final product would look like. As I started to look at possible animals to create, I was drawn in by the Keel-Billed Toucan. I thought the bright colored beak and blue feet were such interesting features, and I thought the funky colors Raku firning sometimes has could work well with that. Coming out of the firing, the beak and feet, which didn't turn out exactly how I imagined, had super interesting colors and did a good job at representing the bright colors of the Keel-Billed Toucan. This process helped teach me that it's ok to not know exactly what you want and it's also ok for things not to turn out exactly how you imagined them to turn out. Sometimes the best things are produced from unknown outcomes.
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