Maybe someday…

Since I was pretty young I have been fascinated with pottery–especially throwing.  (It might have been heavily influenced by Ghost…I’m not sure. J) When I was pretty young I received a small potter’s wheel (very cheap and plastic) for Christmas one year.  It hardly worked at all but I still loved playing with it.  I pretended that I was a “real” potter and I made vases and bowls and mugs. 

Then as a PK (pre-kids) adult, I took some pottery classes at the Quirk Cultural Center in Cuyahoga Falls.  I started out with hand-building (where you don’t use the wheel—just molding and forming).  Then, it was my turn to learn the art of throwing.  If Demi Moore can do it, then so can I, right?  Wrong.  It is unbelievably difficult.  Your hands must be so practiced and precise.  Every wrong movement sends the piece spinning and flopping into a useless gob of clay.  My visions of cupboards filled with cool serving dishes and unique centerpieces died.  I finished my class with a new appreciation for potters.  It takes special skill and years of refining before one can create quality pieces. 

It is because of my love of ceramics that I am so pleased to have Gina DeSantis’s work in the gallery.  She is a potter out of Lakewood, Ohio.  Here are some photographs that I have taken with permission from her blog. 

Someday I may return to my pottery career, but for now I will stick with photography and let Gina and other talented potters handle the vase and mug making for me. 

 

 

Thanks Gina…beautiful work…