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@GustavinoBevilacqua perché io non sono pirla (cit.) :blobcatthinksmart: :blobcatthinksmart: :blobcatthinksmart: :blobcatthinksmart: :blobcatthinksmart:
I make a lot of pottery with elephants, and my best selling item of the last 25 years is an elephant mug, trunk down as the handle. Well, sure, yes, from time to time I make that trunk UP in a lucky curve :) #art#mastoart#clay#ceramics#pottery
Whoa, such a warm welcome, so many nice people! Thank you everyone! Please keep recommending other artists to connect with :)
You asked me to share more about ceramics, so here it goes
I am trying new bowls, I call them nuts. This texture is obtained by applying slip (liquid porcelain) with a brush to the surface of the product. Very meditative process.
I took all this out of the kiln yesterday. Now sanding and glazing.
Maybe I'll have time to fire everything next week.
According to the study, “The apparent absence of pottery in Australia, as noted by early and more recent European observers… both reflected and was used to support, racist social evolutionary hierarchies characterizing Aboriginal societies as lacking cultural complexity.”
In an area just 90 x 90 cm, archaeologists found 82 pottery shards that are 2,950 to 1,815 years old.
Tired of insta and etsy, starting my mastodon journey today!
So let me do an #introduction post. I make ceramics and porcelain in a small studio in Berlin.
Sometimes practical, but mostly experimenting with the artistic side.
German and English are not my native, so expect me to translate a lot.
@sanchita27@mastodonindians What are those tubes? Some kind of noise maker like a kazoo or a whistle or a duck call? Or something completely different?