The big beast is smooth and I’ve made a delightful mess.

Honestly, even “restaurant” takes me 3 tries before it’s close enough for spell check to catch. Between my spelling and my handwriting, it’s a situation.

Look at these scrappy little miniatures for our scrappy little puppet musical. You can own a few! This is the last 12 hrs they'll be made available! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

I’m happy with how this big beast is going. By tomorrow, it’ll be dry enough to start smoothing it.

Freaky ‘'Rubber Hand’ Illusion’ Works on Octopuses, Too www.scientificamerican.com/article/frea...

I made a couple of large planters for some bog plants. The idea is the outer cauldron shape will hold a nice large reservoir of water for the inner pot to sit in, while slowing evaporation. I realized it would be a bit tight to refill the water, which inspired the “pour spouts” on either side!

Starting Sept. 20: Farmington Valley Quilters 2025 Quilt Show – West Hartford, CT sewmanyshows.com/event/farmin... #quiltsky #quilts #farmingtonvalley #quiltshow

First laundry day since my last bronze pour. I’m amused and a bit baffled that “foundry” is a distinct, not fully unpleasant stink. It even overwhelmed the “how can a human body produce this much sweat” stink I was expecting from my gear.

Another September, another deluge of social media posts from PNWers convinced they have fiddle, wolf, or recluse spider infestations. Comrades. It's just giant house spider mating season. You don't have an infestation. They've been there the whole time. Now they are risking death for girlfriends

Oh dang! I might not of mentioned it on here, but come watch me pour bronze at the Pratt Fine Art Center open house at 7pm tonight. www.pratt.org/open-house.php

I have 14(!?) types of clay in my studio right now. My goal, before I get started sculpting for my next firing, is to use some of them up!

I already disliked lofi music for other reasons but one reason is how much art is stolen for them, I am now a member of the club too. It is funny to be reminded how much my style has changed but fuck youuuu Getting stuff on youtube knocked down is new to me, any tips?

Ok, *today* is finally wax clean up day in my studio. I swear I didn’t kill anyone in here!

My waxes are in their plaster, waiting for Saturday’s bronze casting. That means I should be scraping up all the spilled wax in my studio, ready to start brand spanking new clay sculptures for my October wood firing. How about instead of that, I take a nap?

After more than a year of being told to play “Case of the Golden Idol”, I finally started it. It is, in fact, as good as everyone said. My excuse for most of that time was that I didn’t like the characters design/ art style. Now I’m even enjoying the art more than I expected.

Good morning~☀️🫠今日のらくがきで〜す

I like to think of social media like we’re all wandering through a giant hedge maze, hearing the most unhinged shit between the walls, and deciding whether or not to koolaid man ourselves through the shrubbery to participate

Shing’s beautiful marionette musical short film is something you should support for a hundred reasons, but one of them is that handmade, heartfelt art like this is the anti-slop and that makes me feel optimistic in a way not much does these days.

Man, I miss the ability to mute an account for a period of time, or to just mute their reposts.

Earthenware glaze with found/foraged colourants: A: none B: iron oxide (from beach junk) C: copper oxide (from discarded plumbing) D: high manganese sandstone E: high copper basalt F: blue glass G: green glass H: lots of copper oxide #pottery #ceramics #canadianceramics #glaze #wildglaze

I’m coming back from a 20 year reunion with my crew of nerdy college friends. It feels deeply appropriate that my partner and I might have both strained our backs due to a frantic dice throwing game based off of “Legends of the Hidden Temple”. Y’all. We’re old now.

I managed to turn it off by going to the Instagram map (on the top of the messages page), and finding the setting there.

It felt like a very appropriate place to enjoy a tasty treat from my @waywardretreats.bsky.social mug.

I took a few days to go up and kayak camp Ross Lake with friends and my partner. It was great, to just be off the grid for a while, even if we did end up paddling through whitecaps twice.

My next exhibition will be at the beautiful Pike Place Market gallery: @galleryergo.bsky.social INSTINCTS Aug 8-Sept 7th, 2025. Opening night will be Aug 8th, 5-8pm Link in my bio with all the info #seattlegallery #seattleart #pikeplace #pikeplacegalleries #sculptureart #ceramicart #artgallery

I took a moment of quiet, and discovered I still remember 95% of the words of a ska song about William Shatner that I memorized in high school.

Have a round beast this morning. #woodfiredceramics #ceramicsculpture

HOMES ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

Kintsugi is a funny topic. The internet is awash in terrible examples of it. It’s also the most infuriating recommendation that any online potter can receive. (What’s that? Accidentally break something you love? Here’s a stranger, well-meaningly suggesting you fix it with glue + gold paint!)

I can’t fire my wood kiln again until October, due to the summer burn bans of the Pacific Northwest. That’s left me with a month or two of so many useful but unappealing tasks.

I just finished some glamor shots of this spring’s sculptures. These two little beasts are each about 4” long. Fired for 50 some hours in my train kiln! They’re all packed up, ready to head to the Seattle Art Fair.

it's a week away from the Blood Of Gods Merrymaking! Blood of Gods is a metal and wine zine that I'm in love with, I'll be vending at this planned parenthood fundraiser next Saturday in Walla Walla. There's still tickets left! Enjoy art, metal, and amazing WA wine www.eventbrite.com/e/blood-of-g...

Carving some planters

If you don't know about mosquito dunks, you should! They're floating plant material containing a type of bacterium that only attacks mosquito larvae. Just put one in the water and stop mosquitos from hatching. They're inexpensive and highly effective. Signed, a friendly bluesky entomologist.

@thestranger.com wrote about tide pooling and queer community and I missed it! Love science and love yourself at the tide pools!

Pssst. Anyone want to learn how to sculpt a beast in Portland? www.morningceramics.com/events-1/bui...

The Kaabo Award for Black Ceramicists deadline is June 27th!! If you are a Black ceramicist—esp if you're in a predominately white society—please apply! There is $11k ready to be shared and closed mouths don't get fed! Apply here: 👇👇👇 www.kaaboclay.org (pic for attention) #pottery #BlackSky

This trip to New York has been so much fun. It’s also fascinating to catch up with other artist friends, talking about teaching. It’s making me want to think about teaching a longer form workshop, a few days long. It would be so nice for students to not be rushed.

I’ve spent the last week leading an anagama firing at Oki Doki studio in NY state. It was freaking magical

Some square horses I made in 2023. #digitalart #equineart

Happy Pride Month! You know who doesn't change their brand image to rainbow just for June? Ctenophores. They make their gay little rainbows all year. It's a Pride parade in the ocean every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 366 every four years. 🦑🐙

I also banged out a large bowl to bisque for my partner’s darlingtonia. Darlingtonia are finicky, and want their roots a bit cooler than Seattle summers have been. The plan is to create a natural cooling system where the darlingtonia sit in a pot in damp sand in a terra cotta/ bisqued clay bowl

These two potato bois are ready for the kiln! They’ll be coming with me to New York for the okidoki anagama firing!

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride y'all!🏳️‍⚧️ Be bold. Be fabulous. Be you! 🎨🐡🪳🪲 LindZeamays.com/printshop

The answer to the spider poops!

Just returned from ten delightful days in Alaska to find a medium sized wolf spider stranded in our sink. I left a bit it tissue for it to climb up and escape. What’s more alarming to me is the sizable number of spider poops it left behind. What was it eating there!?

The modern phenomenon of the Haunted Cereal Bowl has bothered me for years

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/35476 『魚！魚！魚！ぬいぐるみ』発売。 "Fish! Fish! Fish! Plush Toy" goes on sale. #ガチャポン #gachapon

I wrapped up my talk and workshop in Anchorage, and it’s been so much fun here. Also, disc golf sure has different terrain challenges in Alaska.