Again, wrote this last night, and posted today since my internets are cracktastic. :)
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Well, It's been a busy 18 days since I last posted. School's begun, for the last time in the foreseeable future. I don't quite know what I think about that. In fact, I'm trying not to think about it right now, because the present is just a *little* bit more pressing.
The studio has kept me plenty busy, as always. I've completed one "cycle" of work - meaning I've brought about two weeks' worth of pots through bisque and glaze firings - and am now the proud owner of some 30-40-odd finished pieces. Tomorrow I'm set to start my next cycle: I'll look to be throwing pots on the wheel for the next 12 days or so, and then start the week-long process of bisque-ing and glazing them. Soon after that, my mid-semester review with the faculty looms! Time will fly (as if it isn't going fast enough already)!
I spent most of today just being in the studio with my latest finished works - looking at them, arranging them, and reflecting on them. What's successful? What's absolutely awful? What needs just a little improvement to get it just right? I build my ideas for the next cycle off of the previous one, so this time spent reflecting is critical. I tried to use as many different ways of recording my thoughts as possible - sketches, lists, and photos. The photos I've posted on my facebook, and writing captions for them helped me to think again. Now I have to sleep on the whole thing and go to work again tomorrow.
