What You Don't See

Normally when you see potters' photos of their work you see the "good ones".  What you don't see very often is the "oh no's".  Here are two of mine.  I tried a number of oval bakers made in the traditional way of cutting the leaf shape out of a round baker and pressing the sides together to make an oval.   All three in this firing cracked.  The firing was also faster and hotter than usual which makes the ash glaze run.  The runs I'll grind and if they're not too ugly on the bottom they might sell as seconds, the cracked bakers go on the shard pile.

I've often had visitors to the studio say that it must be so relaxing to make pots.