Just go with it!

I find that most of the time I spend when making something new is made with an idea in mind. From that point I just start feeling it out and it typically turns out. Well this last week I have been working on another vase since the first one ended up on the floor of the local high school (that was just a sad day so we wont go into it). So I started on this new vase and I figured that I would see if I could make it better... I had no idea how though so I just started and it was turning out quite nice but it was still nothing more then what I had already created. And then the pieces of the vase started to break out and I was deviated. I put just a little too much pressure on once fragile piece and crack....

I sat there and hoped that I would be able to glue it back in after it was fired but decided then and there that if I was going to make it then it had to be right.

So I got bold and started to just go with what had just happened. I took what I had and I pushed the limit of what I have done.

In the end it turned out like this.

Kinda fun Huh?

I am excited to get it all glazed and we will see how it turns out after I put a few more little tricks I have into place but in the end it should turn out as something quite unexpected.

Guess thats just a part of my style. 

Go in with an idea and come out with something completely unexpected.

Just goin' with it!

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-At Last

Illuminessence

The other night I woke up in a fit which included what seemed to be an upside down world and some serious delusions... What happened? Well I think every one has been there when they find themselves in a strange place but swear you have been there.... Then realizing that what you think is some kind of dungeon/paradise turns out to be your bedroom. Maybe I am just strange like this cause it happens to me all the time. Actually before the other night I thought my drum set was some sort of bush and I tried to jump through it. Bad idea in the end were I woke up the house with my "crash" symbol and a low tom-tom boom. 

Well... What do ya do... 

BUT the other night I became conscious and I felt as if I was in a complete dream state and some strange things happened. First off I was in the dark and I mean like PITCH BLACK darkness.  Then  there was some floating sensation like I have a wings and there was stuff floating all over the place.  At this point I was a little freaked out BUT taking it in stride so I was good. 

Even though I was trippy all I could think of was Light and if I could break the Darkness... 

I then felt like I was dropped and realized the objects were pillows and the complete darkness was actually were I had thrown the blanket over my head. All in all I was standing on my bed and realized I was about to jump off the bed and you would think being kinda sorta an athlete that reaction would kick in at this time... No... instead of a leap and land I went ugh and squealed a bit and hit the ground with an Umph. 

At that point IT HIT ME!

Breaking the Darkness... 

I thought and thought and I did not sleep for hours after that because of what had just come to me.

This could be what I have been looking for

My dream finally coming to life

So I planned and planned and found by the morning I had all the things in place. 

I understood that it would take time and a lot of trial and error but it is going to happen.

This has started what I feel may become my signature line. 

I will call it 

"Illuminessence"

Now to bring it to light!

-At Last

I just thought of Zoolander and the look he was working on.

...Magnum... 

A New Idea

A couple of weeks ago I was playing with some ideas that I have had for a style... I have wanted to find my style since I started really getting into throwing pottery and art.

I mean I think I have always been kind of creative and stuff but I don't know if I have found MY style just yet. I remember one of the grad students up at the U told me that I was just fighting my true style... Trying to replicate other styles that I have seen and done in the past. Well I took that at face value and have been trying to just start creating. I have a few ideas for a line called "Shattered". This line is going to include somethings I have never even played with before so we will see what happens in the end. I have played with this idea once before but I think I got it right this time. 

I will keep playing with it in the future but what do you think?

~Cheers~

At Last