LATITUDE

I am pretty lucky that most galleries I send work to give me a certain amount of latitude in terms of what I send them. There is guidance based on what sells best for them in terms of styles and decoration but the amounts of super-specific items is left to me Admittedly this works out quite well allowing me to build a good rhythm in working and planning out what needs to be decorated while wet and what can wait until it is dry or bisque. This group picture was part of probably two dozen bowls made in three sizes though only two sizes are shown in the photo ranging from 2 to 6lbs with 8 of the bowls being covered in black slip and then carved, tebori style in these XO patterns. By breaking all the bowls in to three groups of eight it makes it easy to work through smaller groups of eight in the abstrakt resist, B&W slip and carved designs all in one sitting and as I have noted before, there is nothing that complicated in this process but it certainly makes for an enjoyable way to map out a cycle. Throwing, tooling and decorating work and then getting pots ready for the bisque concluding in a glaze firing, honestly nothing beats the humbling experience of unloading a kiln with a nearly 100% success rate which happens far less often then I would like to admit.