Sunday Ceramics 19

Hello fellow mud bunnies how are you all this fine Sunday morning? I am surrounded by frolicking puppies, who are determined that I play puppy games with them and I am missing a shoe, but mostly I am very well. Thank you.

This week in the studio, I have been cleaning.

CLEANING.

*collapses*

I am at the end of a making cycle, and in the process of making, I destroy my studio. I am sure I have mentioned this here before, this cycle of creativity and chaos that for me, go hand in hand. I always end up with the smallest space left available to me before I can not take the mess anymore and then I have to spend a couple of days cleaning, and then the whole cycle  begins again.

This week the cleaning has been much more intense, as I am giving away a heap of glaze materials and raw clay to a new arrival to Tassie and so there has been much evacuating of the studio as I wait for the dust to settle.  For the dust police out there, I do mask up when I am cleaning and then I also wait overnight for the invisible particulate matter to have vanished properly.

This is the amount of space I normally have left before I need to clean.

When I am working in an increasingly smaller and smaller space, the work of necessity also becomes smaller and I am often sent off on a new tangent.

This is a Walkers Porcelain and I have been thinking about river rocks.

I have also been making small ambiguous animal rock creatures for Evelyn, my youngest grand daughter’s birthday next month.

This week has also seen me be humbled by the support of my friends, both online and offline friends who have generously supported me in my quest to go to the Regional Arts Summit in Kalgoorlie in October. My Pozible crowdfunded project will be open until the 12th of July and even though I smashed my target in a few hours of the project going live, every little bit does help, as the target amount I set was the barest minimum I needed to get to Kalgoorlie.

I felt a bit greedy asking for help once my target had been reached, but as my daughter Veronica so eloquently said, it isn’t charity, it is a chance to pre-order my work. And so once I had got the idea of charity out of my head, I felt much better about continuing to ask for all your money.

Clicking on the photo below will send you to my pozible page.

And that is me for the week.

If you would like to join in, you know what to do.