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goretober day one: worms

[image ID: a long rectangular piece of fabric that is a warm brown color, there are several white splotches across the piece where the dye was resisted.]

[image ID: a long rectangular piece of fabric that is a vibrant pinkish purple color in some areas and a darker warm brown in others, in some spots on the fabric the colors blend together or are a lighter shade, in others they are separate colors, there is a lined zigzag pattern across the whole piece.]

[image ID: first image is of a rectangular piece of fabric that has been dyed in indigo, there is a squiggly pattern in white where the clay resisted the dye and left those parts undyed; second image is of a rectangular piece of fabric that has also been dyed in indigo, there are multiple circles of splotchy white spots throughout the fabric with indigo dye in the centers of them where the pebble resist created a rumpled texture that did not get dyed.]

this project has involved a ton of research and introspection as i’ve learned more about my own relationship with pain. starting it has been super difficult though because focusing on your pain can make the pain worse, and considering i was already having a flare up trying to focus on the pain was not the move. still despite the uncomfortable increase in pain this process has helped me better understand my own pain and has been invaluable. (i’ll add the pictures of the finished product later) this piece works in tandem with a paper i wrote on pain education and it’s relationship/uses with children, as well as a lesson plan for bringing pain education into the art classroom (if you’re interested in seeing those just lemme know and i can drop the links)

will i actually keep up with inktober for once in my life?? stay tuned to find out. left is #1 of the official (pretty sure) inktober 2021, prompt: crystal; right is #1 of cryptober a prompt list made by astral.emma (her user on tiktok and insta), prompt: mothman. both done in micron pens, gonna try and keep up with both of these prompt lists for the month!

time lapse of clearing out an old flower bed and planting veggies and herbs there! this was for a project for my art for social change class i took over the summer. peep a zine on guerrilla gardening to be posted soon as well!

time lapse and final piece for this gel medium transfer! this piece was for my art for social change class i took over the summer, the overlay of human veins on top of mycelium shows that we aren’t so different from nature, humans need to start thinking of themselves as part of nature rather than as above nature (gel medium transfer onto wood, summer 2021)

pouring pots from my throwing class this past spring (the tea pot is one of my favs)

other cups and mugs! the two water slide decal ones were a lot of fun and i have a lot of leftover decals i want to try out next time i have a ceramics class!

set of 4 mugs, i really liked how these turned out

frog and water lily mugs with lily pad saucers! i absolutely hated the handbuilding i had to do for these two but i love the end results with my whole heart

pt 2 of thrown bowls! i honestly didn’t realize how many bowls i made until i started photographing all of them and it’s so many

pt 1 of bowls i threw this past semester, these were some of the first things i threw on a wheel and glazed super happy with how most of them came out! (i made hella bowls so this is only like half of them more to come)

pinch pots! these were the first pieces i made and glazed so they’re very experimental, i can definitely see how much growth i’ve made as this semester has gone by. fired at cone 10 using highwater clays cone 7-10 phoenix clay

Some painted bowls for my pottery class