PASSING ACCEPTANCE

I am aware that I have an this singularity, maybe just a common enough quirk in regards to my pottery where almost as soon as my pots come out of the kiln I start seeing everything that I should have done differently from issues regarding the form to tooling, decorating and glazing. When the kiln is unloaded the pots hit the staging table are sorted out for those going to commissions/ orders, the hammer and the shelves for storage. On the rare occasion a pot comes out that goes a whole 15 minutes or so before my base nature kicks to pick the piece apart , perhaps these are the pots that I am happy with and succeeded at some level to my eye ending in some passing acceptance.            

Illustrated is a teabowl from several firings back that is more brown in one light and more green in another, I was pleased with as it came out of the kiln and has been up on a shelf since it was made. As you can see the pot was thrown out of a clay body I made up with lots of sand and stones and then altered to make it square where the shape was further defined using a rasp tool. Once the clay texture was opened up a bit I went about impressing groups of four squares in alternating corners of the bowl to break up the surface a bit more. Once bisque, I glazed the bowl in my most recent Oribe style glaze and added bands of iron over the center of each plane to further break up the geometry of each side. At the end of the day I was actually momentarily pleased with this bowl but like with every firing, learn from what I made and all of the result and plan for the next cycle. 

"Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance."  Vernon Howard