Sometimes all I want to do is retreat to some hippie mountains and throw some pottery all day.. and fire it in some crazy underground kiln I made. It always fluctuates between that scenario and the one where I'm a TA at the printmaking studio and I just file down zinc plates all day and make perfect aquatints.
The colors you use to ink plates are the consistency of lipstick and you mix it on a glass table top with a spatula that is almost as stiff as a razor blade. Its really satisfying to scrape around cause of the blade on glass feeling. You can almost do it all day in a trance-like state.
Also there are some crazy firing techniques in ceramics where the glaze actually has glass shards in it and when you fire your piece in the kiln the glass pieces explode and melt, creating a gradient glazing effect.
Basically I hate work right now if you can't tell.
the other day at this pottery store in Eagle Rock...I was about to buy some ceramic pomegranates at $15 each, but then decided against it...
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