Whoever said working with clay was therapudic....

[Mayasmydobe]

man oh man were they right!


Im in a ceramics class at school...
tonight i was in class, and I dont know why, but I was feeling depressed... just wanted to cry, scream, and so on...
So, I decided that since I wanted to be alone, I would take my clay into the other room (its a HUGE art studio) and work by myself.
So I grabbed a bunch of clay from the containers, a few tools and head off to work in a room all by myself.
I turned up the volume on my ipod to my favorite angry music and went to work crying and literally beating the crap out of this clay.
Half an hour later I'm feeling a bit better so I decide to join the rest of my class. I walked in with tears running down my cheeks and what my teacher says is an awsome piece of work.
I had planned on destroying it, but she wont let me. She said that when I came back, I had such a look of relief that I needed to fire the piece and keep it. So I signed my mark on the bottum and it's going into the Kiln as soon as it's dry enough.
Aparently, she knew something was wrong the entire night, but had decided that I needed to work it out myself and didnt want to push anything.

I dont have any pictures yet, but I will get some as soon as I can.

 

[bubbatd]

Wise teacher !!! I'm anxious to see it !

 

[Zoom]

I'm interested in seeing it myself!

Clay is awesomely theraputic, I have quite the collection of Angry Bowls from a few years ago and when I was in college. I should get back into this, but I never know when I'll have time to do things properly.

 

[Izzy's Valkyrie]

I love making things with clay. I have this awesome little seal I did in 6th grade but the glaze is uneven because the teacher told me that it would even out after being fired. LIES. I still love it though. My grandmother has something like three kilns, I may ask her for one when I get a house.

 

[smkie]

wish it was therapudic for me, it isn't. IT is hard and an ordeal and challanging..and worse i do it every day so it loses fun in that as well. Glad you had a good time, glad the teacher gave you space.