Now
and again I decide to try to make something out of round and set a limit to see
what can be done in that block of time. I decided to make a square vase form
that would then be heavily slipped and these flower blocks are what I came up
with. Thrown round without a bottom and then quickly squared on the wheel I used
my heat gun to firm them up and then rolled out a quick slab for the bottom of
the pot. Once the base was attached and a quick coil attached around the base
interior I slipped and combed the first vase and then set about making a second
which was a bit bigger and managed to take less time than the first. They both
came out just about as I saw them before they were made and I will likely glaze
them in the Oribe or Ao+ once they are bisque and ready to glaze. Admittedly
there is nothing ground breaking in any way about these two flower blocks but
when 90% of what you make is round, getting out of the round and altering the
routine is reward enough in itself.
"Routine
is not organization any more than paralysis is order." Sir Arthur Helps
(1813-1875)
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