I've just cracked the lid of my kiln, and am waiting in suspense to see how my glazing came out. Praying to the fire gods that my pyramids fired white at cone 6. The entry for the juried show at the New Britain Museum is today, and I am so nervous about it. It comes down to: am I really good enough, or do I just get in because I submit sculpture? This year I am moving away from the high-detail work to my abstract trilateral-pyramid schemes. Should I call them schemes? Or sets? Arrangements?
I am probably going to put a halt on ceramics for the winter, due to the ventilation problems; I don't want to shred my lungs with glass any more than I already have, I can feel them aching right now. But now what else am I going to do? What can I focus on until the weather warms up? That's a really tough question.
I need a ball mill to mix my bulk glazes in, and desperatley need a pug mill to reclaim my clay. Unfortunately, these cost about the same as my CR-V. My option is to try and take a ceramics class at Central, and use their facilities, because that will cost significantly less. I need to get back into the academic side of the art world--I've been on my island too long.
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