Pots pots pots pots pots... and more pots. (Semester Finale fall 2011)

It doesn't feel like Christmas yet. It felt like Christmas a few weeks ago, but it feels less so now. There is no logic to it, but I don't feel any holiday cheer right now. Maybe it's because I don't seem to have time to think about holiday stuff. It is finals week, after all. I had a final critique last Wednesday, a final presentation on Monday, another critique and kiln-unloading yesterday, and a geology final tonight. I am done, finally. I still have to go pick up my work from the studio. I have no idea where I will put it all. Hopefully my parents will like it enough to decorate with it... I bet the mushroom head will get stored away somewhere. Oh, and I have an ugly "hairy" vase that might even end up outside eventually. I don't know what I was thinking when I made it. Oh well.
I will leave to go home for the holidays tomorrow afternoon. I'm not packed yet. Mainly I am just trying to get my pots organized. I have sooooo many... my dorm room is overflowing with pots, and there are plenty more still at the studio.
I took photos yesterday, but a lot of them turned out really blurry so I will probably end up retaking them anyway. I will post some of the better pictures:

 Project #2: Realistic Object- Favorite Hat

 Hat view 2

 Proj. #2 part 2: Abstract the same realistic object- Flying Hat

 Figurative Proj: Base it off of the same object (the hat): Decomposition (from summer sketches)

Decomposition view 2

 Proj. #1: Ancient Forms- Korean Vase

 Proj. #5: 5 parts, 5 feet. -Industrial Wood-fired Domes

 Proj. #1: Ancient Forms: Korean Vase form, "Hairy Vase", or "Wild Thing", as a friend called it.

 Coil Vase-- not class-related. 19" tall.

Soda Fired Hand-built cups (Proj. 4: repeated forms)

 Ergonomic Mugs (the handles are really comfortable)

 POW!

 Small Soda-Fired Pitcher

More Fire, Less Time

It's almost time. For what? For everything. Final projects and papers, the ceramic holiday sale, and first of all-- my shifts at the wood firing. It's going to be a long day. I am going to the studio tonight an hour or two before my shift because I have some pots to glaze and I should make a cone pack for my Tuesday firing. I have so much to do that I feel a little overwhelmed. I should go work on my sculpture project, but I don't really know when I would do it. I still have to make the pizza sauce for tomorrow, and I should make it today in preparation because I won't feel like making it when I wake up tomorrow. Also, I need to find a time at night when I can photograph any work that I plan on putting in the sale. I might try to do that tonight before I leave for the studio since it gets dark at half past five. That gives me plenty of time to do it. I will leave for the studio at around nine p.m. If I have time before Tuesday, I want to try and make some porcelain pieces for the soda kiln that we are firing next weekend. Like I said, there is too much to do... and I don't exactly feel motivated to make the sauce or even think about my sculpture project. I have some other ideas for the meantime-- watching Christmas movies with a friend and maybe shopping for a new pair of shoes and going to a cafe for a treat... and maybe drawing something because I am in the mood. Oh, and I should play guitar because I haven't played all week. I just need to find some motivation :)
The wood firing shifts will be super cold... I will be firing from midnight tonight until 6:00am tomorrow morning, and then the pizza party thing is at noon... and then I have another shift from 6:00pm to midnight. I wish I could sleep during the day. I would take a nap before I go tonight, but I know it won't happen.
Here are some photos of work that I should have photographed a long time ago... a salt fired bowl and a high temperature wood fired mug: