Words on Ceramics

Essential Question: How can we combine words with our ceramics to explore who we are?

Project Challenge: Combine an original poem with a thrown or hand-built work. Learn about different types of firings, and have work fired in the wood-fired kiln.

How can we combine words with our ceramics to explore who we are?

I feel that my final piece shows who I am as a person by utilizing the colors of glazes that were used. I feel that they are warm and welcoming, as I hope to be to others and as I have heard I am to others. Also, all of the colors that were used tie into my poem about the fall season. Fall is my favorite season and I was so happy with how the glazing turned out and how my piece got the wood-firing effect to it. Overall I feel like my piece really reflects who I am in the multiple ways you can look at it.

I am extremely happy with how my wood-fired form turned out. I love the effect that the firing had on my piece, compared to others in the firing I feel like mine had the perfect effect. The look from the wood-firing and the warm colors I picked out for glazes made it all come together really seamlessly. Comparing how my piece looks from a wood-firing to our normal electric kiln firing is that now it has that bronze tone to it, while in our normal firings the base color of the clay comes out looking more ‘clean’ and white.

My Poem:

I am unique and curious.

I wonder when the snow will fall.

I hear the fall breeze.

I see the leaves falling.

I am unique and curious.