"Stairs 02" stop motion animation, 13 frames, 2025

Stairs Test (reversed)

Stairs test

More blocks

Blocks

Stairs

More little glaze batches. The more you test, the more ideas for additional tests you can have

Updating my clay printer designs again for a new body of work

Moving toward more color and less control. 'Cascade', glazed ceramic

'Surface 01' (from 2021) Animated line drawing depicting a slightly vibrating surface. Hand drawn and animated in #blender 200 frames, 720x720 px.

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Taughannock Falls, Ulysses, New York

More glaze tests. Moving from more saturated color to more nuanced things

Polyphonic Architecture https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/17586/

Do not talk of him

Working on making gray and charcoal glaze colors. This one has cobalt, manganese, nickel, and tin as colorants

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

Chris Ware postage stamps are coming July 23rd

. . . lots of glaze tests

Ready to load kiln but turned around and the space was occupied

Happy to spend some time making this mess messier

I wish I had dozens of these bell jars for keeping works in progress from drying out. Many thanks to Andrew Castañeda, who gifted me this one

Some clay works in progress . . .

Spring 🌱🌼

A sketch of intersecting spheres as a printed clay object

Organized these glaze materials last weekend, hoping to start using them this week.

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Since I was last on Bluesky we got a kitten. This is what he looks like.

Been gone for a year or so, but thought I'd try this app again. Teaching some animation rigging today

Tiles accumulating, for experiments in glazing and stop motion animation

Driving across the Midwest to visit family. Made a quick stop in Columbus, Ohio to see the strange & provocative Wexner Center fire the Arts

Printed clay blocks, to be assembled into a larger form

Stepped pattern block in printed & crafted clay. Unfired works in progress

Assembling clay blocks

Gustav Klimt, The Park, 1910 or earlier

work in progress, printed and hand worked clay, modular patterned parts

Third in a series of abstracted cityscapes. Began as a generative model, printed in clay then hand worked. Will need to dry and fire, and then think about color/surface

digital design→wet clay print→fired ceramic sculpture→3D scan

Glamorous life of an educator at semester's end, working with grads to inventory hundreds of esoteric powders and particles