To create one has to think, in a forward direction, anticipating obstacles, planning - which sometimes results in a need to rethink-to solve some issue before one rejoices in success.
Funny example given that reminded me of my father. From my mother's words, she once told me a ittle story happened during a roadtrip. My father was into mechanics since his 8-10yo, dismantling motorbikes, motors, and repairing them, he kept doing so through all his life, developping a wordless sense for mechanics, one of the best repairing guys ever in my area, and famously known for that, despite he ironically passed his driver license at the age of 50 for the first time, and he never opened a garage, or worked officially in that domain, he practiced many jobs and his last one was crane operator in the building industry, but whatever, one day while having a trip by car with my mother, they crossed some people in difficults parked along the road, his curiosity and passion pushed him to insist my mother to halt there, and he came to the rescue of the people with their car problem. He made the fix with bare materials at hands, and told them how long should it last, enough 'til the 8-10km away gas station. My parents followed them by car to that place, just to be sure they're safe. Once arrived, guess what, the fix just broke. It lasted only as expected. Great skills of agency of my father, back in France in the 70's. Not easy to translate in French, but i'll find my own words for the notion, instead of the autonomy, it will feed my mind for a while. Thanks
that responds so well...very plastic..(specially at sec 49,,,)...I will venture into the canyon near my house in search of clay tomorrow....very psyched!.
I really enjoy listening to your perspective and I agree that sometimes it's not about the result of it but what we learned from it. I would like to see the process of the glaze for this particular type of clay!
Making things work without ordering or shopping for what you need is pottery history. People always say that you shouldn't use this pot or that pot and curl their lip up at the thought of wild clay mixing or serving bowls.. oh how disgusting, you can't clean them, etc... well, entire generations used crocks and bowls and cups made from wild clay but people like my geandma and her elders knew how to seal them by boiling cornmeal or even rice in those tjings to seal up the pores. It's kinda like using cast iron, it isn't seasoned until you have those pores in the metal sealed up. You do not scrub cast iron with hot soapy water or put it in a dish washer or you will ruin it and have to go through the whole conditioning process again. Cast iron you just rinse and lightly wash with warm soapy water and rinse then dry thoroughly and lightly oul it for next time. Millions of people should have died if pottery was so nasty and disgusting by the way the old timers sealed it for use
I agree, there's a whole contingency that fearmongers around pottery 'food safety.' It's a topic worth knowing about, but unfortunately a lot of folks don't know anything about it, but just regurgitate incomplete and fearful hearsay.
What is the drying shrinkage of this clay? I have started working with a local clay that shrinks 9.5% to done dry and requires a lot of attention and time to the drying of thrown pieces. Even with this care I sometimes lose a piece due to cracking. But the time commitment and occasional loss to cracking is worth it.
I can't remember exactly, but it is definitely prone to cracking if not dried evenly (and especially if not of consistent thickness). Totally agree that the difficulties of some wild clays are worth the trouble.
Hi from Kalispell. I find your use of autonomy and agency interesting. Not the way I would use them but also not saying you are wrong. I got your thought. Upon returning from a long road trip my wife and I were discussing what we had seen when I noticed she remembered the places, cities and towns while I remembered the countryside we traveled through. She was destination minded while I am more process minded. Cities and towns to me were just places where you refueled your vehicle and body while for her they were the whole purpose of the trip. I found some local clay which was a little bit sticky but I thought it might work so I bisqued a sample and it came out OK, a little red from iron but OK. In the next glaze firing to 1200C I put it in the kiln and being optimistic didn't bother with any sort of catch basin. Of course it melted into a black lava mess which resulted in a big divit in my kiln shelf. Think I'll do some more searching around.
When you work with clay you dig you often have to adjust your process to meet the material, whether that's changing your firing temperature, forming method, or even forms used. Also, always fire test pieces in waste dishes at first to get a sense of firing temp, your kiln shelves will thank you.
Yeah, there's just no way to estimate a clay's ideal firing temperature from how it looks or feels. Definitely try that clay as a main ingredient in a high fire glaze though!
I would love to see a video about how to make your own clay. The whole process would be so interesting. I would love to try it myself someday but don't really know how.
To create one has to think, in a forward direction, anticipating obstacles, planning - which sometimes results in a need to rethink-to solve some issue before one rejoices in success.
Funny example given that reminded me of my father. From my mother's words, she once told me a ittle story happened during a roadtrip. My father was into mechanics since his 8-10yo, dismantling motorbikes, motors, and repairing them, he kept doing so through all his life, developping a wordless sense for mechanics, one of the best repairing guys ever in my area, and famously known for that, despite he ironically passed his driver license at the age of 50 for the first time, and he never opened a garage, or worked officially in that domain, he practiced many jobs and his last one was crane operator in the building industry, but whatever, one day while having a trip by car with my mother, they crossed some people in difficults parked along the road, his curiosity and passion pushed him to insist my mother to halt there, and he came to the rescue of the people with their car problem. He made the fix with bare materials at hands, and told them how long should it last, enough 'til the 8-10km away gas station. My parents followed them by car to that place, just to be sure they're safe. Once arrived, guess what, the fix just broke. It lasted only as expected.
Great skills of agency of my father, back in France in the 70's. Not easy to translate in French, but i'll find my own words for the notion, instead of the autonomy, it will feed my mind for a while. Thanks
yes, more of this please!
be great to see and observe how you will grow
that responds so well...very plastic..(specially at sec 49,,,)...I will venture into the canyon near my house in search of clay tomorrow....very psyched!.
I really enjoy listening to your perspective and I agree that sometimes it's not about the result of it but what we learned from it. I would like to see the process of the glaze for this particular type of clay!
Thanks a bunch! I'll definitely record my glaze efforts.
Making things work without ordering or shopping for what you need is pottery history.
People always say that you shouldn't use this pot or that pot and curl their lip up at the thought of wild clay mixing or serving bowls.. oh how disgusting, you can't clean them, etc... well, entire generations used crocks and bowls and cups made from wild clay but people like my geandma and her elders knew how to seal them by boiling cornmeal or even rice in those tjings to seal up the pores. It's kinda like using cast iron, it isn't seasoned until you have those pores in the metal sealed up. You do not scrub cast iron with hot soapy water or put it in a dish washer or you will ruin it and have to go through the whole conditioning process again.
Cast iron you just rinse and lightly wash with warm soapy water and rinse then dry thoroughly and lightly oul it for next time.
Millions of people should have died if pottery was so nasty and disgusting by the way the old timers sealed it for use
I agree, there's a whole contingency that fearmongers around pottery 'food safety.' It's a topic worth knowing about, but unfortunately a lot of folks don't know anything about it, but just regurgitate incomplete and fearful hearsay.
What is the drying shrinkage of this clay? I have started working with a local clay that shrinks 9.5% to done dry and requires a lot of attention and time to the drying of thrown pieces. Even with this care I sometimes lose a piece due to cracking. But the time commitment and occasional loss to cracking is worth it.
I can't remember exactly, but it is definitely prone to cracking if not dried evenly (and especially if not of consistent thickness). Totally agree that the difficulties of some wild clays are worth the trouble.
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Hi from Kalispell. I find your use of autonomy and agency interesting. Not the way I would use them but also not saying you are wrong. I got your thought.
Upon returning from a long road trip my wife and I were discussing what we had seen when I noticed she remembered the places, cities and towns while I remembered the countryside we traveled through. She was destination minded while I am more process minded. Cities and towns to me were just places where you refueled your vehicle and body while for her they were the whole purpose of the trip.
I found some local clay which was a little bit sticky but I thought it might work so I bisqued a sample and it came out OK, a little red from iron but OK. In the next glaze firing to 1200C I put it in the kiln and being optimistic didn't bother with any sort of catch basin. Of course it melted into a black lava mess which resulted in a big divit in my kiln shelf. Think I'll do some more searching around.
When you work with clay you dig you often have to adjust your process to meet the material, whether that's changing your firing temperature, forming method, or even forms used. Also, always fire test pieces in waste dishes at first to get a sense of firing temp, your kiln shelves will thank you.
Yeah, there's just no way to estimate a clay's ideal firing temperature from how it looks or feels. Definitely try that clay as a main ingredient in a high fire glaze though!
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I would love to see a video about how to make your own clay. The whole process would be so interesting. I would love to try it myself someday but don't really know how.
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