My MFA Thesis Show

Time to have some fun again

My Thesis show is up and now I have time to enjoy ceramics again. I think looming deadlines of doom will suck the fun out of just about anything. So now that I can breathe again and not worry about how I’m going to catch-up on all the stuff I need to get done tomorrow because I failed to do it today, this is what I’ve been up to.

Zombie blood splatter pots!

Now that's fun

Almost a Master

The fun and games of grade school are over. It’s time to get serious and prepare for my thesis show.

What could be more serious then urns?

the hippo urn

Here are all the pieces needed to complete the hippo urn. This is one of my favorite parts of the process I like to see how it will all fit together.

And here it is all put together; I didn’t use two pieces because it looked better without them. Can you find the pieces I didn’t use? It’s fun like a game

latest finished work

bye bye hippo

Lately I’ve been working on a series of urns based on the narrative of whom or what could be contained inside. Here is a hippopotamus urn I’ve been working on, to clarify it is not an urn for a hippopotamus (I love hippos). The detail is a pattern made of “no diving” warning signs and the knob is a winged hourglass that symbolizes death and reminds the viewer that their time is coming (especially if you go swimming with hippos).

the forever pot

It’s always a good feeling to finish a project, especially this one, for some reason this pot took me forever to finish. Granted I do work extremely slow, but come on, I started it way back when Heath was my studio mate! Slowly but surely it started to fall behind on the priorities list (right after popping balloons) so I decided, after a long game of balloon popping, to buck up and finish this pot and what do you know 2 weeks later it’s done.