Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
Categories: classes, clay, wheelthrowing

Last night in my Intermediate Wheelthrowing class, one of my students unwrapped her pots from last week to do a some trimming… and we found THIS under the plastic!!!

Like a Las Vegas Hotel imploding… this cylinder totally crumpled down at the bottom, and the bottom even separated itself from the walls. The other two cylinders wrapped together with this one were totally fine. My only guess is that it was left with some water in the bottom, and then when it was covered with plastic it created a mini “rainforest” in there and the clay slaked-down just like the clay in my reclaim bucket. Never a dull day in pottery!

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