Ornament Collection

It's the end of a chapter. Seeing the bulk of the ornaments together provides a visual picture of the journey so far. It has been a journey very experimental in nature. Several useful techniques have been practised, and several lessons learned, but nothing is predictable and it will always be a hit n miss venture. Gambling with glazes will never not provide volatile results.

The plan is to churn out more unique one-off ornaments, but faster. The key goal, from here on in, if it hasn't been put into work already, is to make the observer ask themselves what it is they are looking at. Making a plant pot or a hand or a figure of a woman is all well and good, but they are all too obvious and have been done before (and far more expertly, at that).

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Greater care will be taken in the shape and structure of every object to come. Each one will have a little more purpose and direction. In some cases previous, it was just a case of bish-bash-bosh and seeing whatever came out. There will be more handwork going on, more curves, more bizarre oddness, and, unfortunately, by the looks of it, less gold.

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