#10 Clay Visual Diary | Starting New Bodies of Work & Slow Coastal Living

Описание: Documenting my ceramics practice and slow coastal living.

In this chapter, I work across several pieces in parallel, exploring how structure and intuition can coexist within the same process. I begin by testing plaster guides made from 3D-printed negatives, using them as temporary frameworks to support proportion and scale, before returning to the surface by hand.

Alongside this, new bodies of work take shape through hand building. I stay with touch for as long as possible, allowing forms to find their own balance before introducing tools. At certain stages, the work feels unresolved — too wet, unclear, unstable — and it’s in staying with these moments that the form begins to emerge.

Across different objects, the same ideas are translated and tested again: suggested geometry, altered by hand; structure introduced briefly, then softened. Several streams of work unfold at the same time, influencing one another as they develop.

Between processes, materials are left to rest, dry, or settle, while other work continues. Nothing is resolved yet. This is a moment of testing, observation, and continuity.

Thank you for being here.

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In this video:
• plaster guides from 3D-printed forms
• handbuilt pieces shaped by touch
• altered geometry and surface work
• multiple bodies of work developing in parallel

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Chapters
0:00 Intro | Sunrise and Studio Reset
03:02 Making a Plaster Mould
03:29 New Handbuilt Vase
06:51 Testing the Plaster Mould
09:58 Another Handbuilt Vase and Candle Holder
14:58 Outro: Results