This is a collection of some of my favorite original ceramic works, consisting of many mugs, jars, and a bowl, all constructed and/or thrown on a pottery wheel and glazed by me before being fired in the kiln. This piece at the top is both my most recent ceramic piece and probably my favorite. All photographs of my ceramic art pictured here were taken by me.

The pieces in this collection feature a variety of techniques including layering various glazes to achieve certain color combinations or effects, engraving, coiling, throwing, handle pulling, sculpting, and wax resist techniques. Two of the pieces feature a foot, which gives the piece a clean look and makes it more stable.

The three colored spiral-glazed mugs above are part of a series. I aimed to evolve new features and ideas in each mug and play with different aspects and techniques. The second mug (red) has a deeply accentuated shape, a large handle, and a small foot. The third mug (green) as you have noticed, features two tiny handles with hand-sculpted birds on top.

The mug featured above this text became slightly too dry while I was shaping it on the pottery wheel and split open. Instead of scrapping the piece and giving up, my teacher encouraged me to complete the piece anyway, so I pulled a handle and used it to seal up the gaping hole, and smoothed the piece while keeping the new and unusual shape of the mug in tact. This mug actually turned out to be extremely ergonomic and comfortable and I love that it is a physical object I can point to and show that out of mistakes or failure, serendipity can occur.

I used a wax resist technique to get the spotted appearance on the glaze of this small thick wavy jar. I keep guitar picks in this jar. Or rather, I did until recently. You will notice some small cracks in this piece. Unlike cracks you may notice in a couple of the other pieces in this collection which are purely aesthetic, this jar cracked and split into four different pieces when it unfortunately fell a few days ago. Luckily it managed to sit together as a whole piece while I snapped this photograph. At first I was a bit upset that it was broken, until I remembered the ancient Japanese technique called Kintsugi, which uses lacquer combined with gold to repair pottery. I am planning to research and use the technique to repair this piece. I learned about it when I was in one of my pottery classes and think it is a beautiful and fantastical way to repair pottery and show the beauty of imperfection. The golden cracks will certainly pop in this color scheme, and the usage of the technique will pay homage to the home of some of the most beautiful pottery in the world.