Pueblo Coil Pot

Planning:

Reflection:

Before starting this project, I feel like learning about the history of pueblo pottery helped us understand the meaning and importance behind all of our pieces. Not only does it help us connect with past traditions but it helps us improve old techniques and continue on the tradition. While making these pottery pieces we are still learning about the past and honoring their traditions, all while adding our own ideas and twist to the aspect. I feel that seeing older pieces not only helps spark creativity but helps make sure we are somewhat connecting our pieces to the past.

To be completely honest this project was quite challenging for me and I wasn’t the biggest fan of the coil method. I found it very difficult to keep the shape to be “perfect” I felt that it was always lopsided or lumpy and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it. I am not very impressed with the final result of my coil pot, I like what I chose to carve and what not to carve, but my mountains look more like blobs than anything else. My favorite part of this project overall probably has to be the carving, it was just so satisfying to watch the glaze come off of the clay and then feel how smooth the clay was. The most challenging part was forming the coil pot, hands down. Like I said previously, I always felt like the shape was lopsided and that the coils were too uneven, and I tried many different methods to make it look nicer. I did end up changing the overall shape of the coil pot from the original plan, but I like the new shape much better.