Sarah Powers

U Can’t Touch This / MC Hammer

I just ordered both. I’m so suggestible.

This is called Awesome Possum, and it’s made by Armadillo Clay in Austin, TX. Fired to cone 10 in a community gas reduction kiln. It is a white white, and great behind colors. Very nice to work with, but high shrinkage. Before this most of my work was Laguna B-Mix.

Alaskans have been using it as the official name before the US gov’t got around to it too.

I called it Denali before the official name change a while back, and will continue to, since that is the name of the mountain, and has been for centuries.

Why am I imagining the bunny eating the chick in the next frame like a muppet?

All I can think of is - to the window, to the wall…

Porcelain vase with flowers carved through black slip. The background has inlaid blue lines of slip. The photo reads “So pleased with how this turned out.”

Very happy with this finished vase. There were about 3 things I was concerned about going wrong, and they are all fine. I really needed a pottery related boost!

That’s delightful! I love it.

I think this is a very good point, but as a Texan, I worry they’ll improvise.

My comfort movie too. “You’re late, Gail! Buh bye”

This is really bad. It will put people in terrible situations immediately. I’m not understanding how it could be legal. It’s frightening if that’s all it takes to get government agencies to comply.

Jamelle Bouie

bsky.app/profile/jame...

One idea - you could flip into a wet chuck that you let set up some, that way the pressure would transfer through the main walls of the form instead of on the neck.

I know two Japanese Americans who were children in the camps. The fact that it’s happened before makes it even more likely to happen again. They do learn from history, just in a nefarious way.

Thank you! I’ve been letting myself lean into that style wise. It’s taken a while to start trusting my natural inclination and also to find a reliable methods to achieve it. Mason stains came out of many disasters with underglaze at cone 10.

Well, some of these are porcelain. I wish you could edit posts.

Oh, thank you! I followed you back.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

White stoneware being thrown on a potter’s wheel, next to a yellow sponge used for the process.

Testing feeds and how they work here. Throwing on the wheel. #wheelthrownpottery

Thank you. This really distills it so well. 📌

I have good instincts then! Nice to find you.

I also have just been trying to embrace the mark of the pancake maker.

Ceramic pieces: an unfired gray and light blue vase with carved florals, a carved sunfish, a mug with inlaid wavy lines, a finished cobalt colored vase with carved flowers.

A few more examples of my work. These are all high fired stoneware decorated with colored slip using Mason stains.

I’m a potter and an artist. I bring my art background into surface decoration on my functional pieces using sgraffito through colored slip, which is a carving technique, and an inlay technique called mishima. This is a finished vase and what it looked like before firing at the end.

I was looking for an alternative to other apps when tiktok started going down. Hoping for community that is insightful, funny, informed, quirky, but in a different package.