So I haven't been to the studio in like 3 or 4 months, because I crashed my car at the end of August. But I have had a lot of projects to finish, from the woodfire in April to the soda fire in September. I have flocked several of these pieces and finished a few. I have applied to 3 shows in November and December, so I have been busy getting things together, photographing pieces, updating my website and getting my sh*t together. It is nerve wracking trying to find time to do everything, but ya gotta wanna. good wisdom from zach and the chiro philosophy. A good reason to enter a bunch of shows with your most recent work, is that you force yourself to put the finishing touches on a piece, set up your faux photo studio in your living room and start struggling with your stupid tripod and start snapping away while you are tripping over your cat that thinks we are playing some kind of game. But the number one thing I love about the process, is that once you have a good photo, no one has to know that you were sweating through the entire process in a tiny 400 sq ft apt in your pajamas while watching NCIS. :)
I have three or four more shows to enter this January and February, which are the Clay IV Kirkland Art Center Ceramic Biennial, the 4th contemporary Clay Biennial 2012, the 19th San Angelo National Ceramics Competition, and Feats of Clay.
I have about three pieces to photograph next week, and also been trying to catch up on Ceramics Art and Perception and Ceramics Monthly as well as finish up The History of American Ceramics. I guess i am trying to prepare to apply to grad school in 2 or 3 years, so I am trying to not fail at this DIY clay approach.
May your New Year be more creative than the last!
Hollie
