Blog 7,8,9

I have been in sort of a funk lately when it comes to keeping up with everything that is going on in my life lately but, this week has been much better and hopefully for the rest of the semester I can put these issues aside and get some ceramics done.

I had my BFA critique a couple weeks ago and I think that it went pretty well. A lot of people had things to say, some comments were helpful and some weren't exactly in the direction that I see my work heading in, but they were still interesting points. I am still trying to take everything into consideration and figure out my next moves, as far as concepts go.

As far as the rest of the semester goes I am just going to try and finish the projects that I have started, the bottles, cups, lemons and to-go-boxes. I have been doing a lot of test firing on my styrofoam cups to see if I can get the clear glaze to quit cracking on them. I have gone from cone 06 to cone 4 and I think that I have finally found the key with cone 4. The lemons will be displayed in the "urban/hip-hop/street art" show that i am hosting in the spacelab during the week of April 3rd. I also hope to have a few pieces ready for the open house. Needless to say, I have quite a bit of casting, glazing, firing and focusing to do.

I have also been doing some throwing and I have to say the assignment of making lidded jars was quite a bit harder than I was expecting. All of the past assignments came pretty natural, but with this one is a little more complicated. Making two seperate parts that look good together and also fit well together was quite the challenge and I am afraid that it is going to take me a bit longer to master this one.

As I said before I have been out of it for a little bit but I think that this probably happens to the best of us, and now I am back in it.