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In my last cycle working with stoneware and porcelain I decided to vary the throwing of teabowls a bit and made a group of thrown and altered pieces. I ended up with a few in the round, but the majority ended up being altered square, rectangular, triangular and lobed with either plain combed slip or slip and the addition of geometric devices added prior to glazing. I ended up using the Zen decoration of circles, squares and triangles on several of the pieces to emphasize the geometry of the forms with geometric symbols. I carried the geometric theme to the feet as well, I tooled several in a more traditional, round foot while others were hand cut into triangles and squares to echo the forms. It is alsways enjoyable to take a break for the round and round rhythm of most days and cycles to make things that end up out of round and I thought I would never have a use for the geometry classes that I doodled through.