Please buy these weirdo pots

they're taking over the apartment

As promised, my ceramics are now available for sale. I’m going to do a couple sales, so there will be another one in a couple of weeks, with more joy and more anxiety pots, and whatever else I decide to make. These are just a few joy cups, and some one-offs/randoms I found while cleaning out my studio. Ori (my spouse) sets the pricing for my ceramics, because otherwise I would just give everything away. But money is useful, as they say, if only for financial reasons.

The joke is this: this is a black friday sale. The pots are, in most cases, almost double what they’d normally be. On Saturday, they will be normal price again. I did this for a few reasons. One is that the normal price for the pots does not reflect the amount of time each of these take. They are all hand thrown, trimmed, sanded, individually glazed with a tiny brush, then cleaned up before firing. This porcelain clay is both very expensive to use and extremely fussy, leading to many accidents (over a third of these pots don’t make it through from throwing to firing).

Why am I pricing things higher than where I’ve priced things before, and only for a couple of days? This was Ori’s idea, but I look at it this way: I’m an artist. Things have gotten expensive. It takes me a long time to make these, much longer than where I price the pots. I would like to standardize the process some to bring down costs, but haven’t been able to manage that yet—to make a functional, perfect mold, start to finish, is about a month’s worth of work, and you’re not making anything else during that time. In this instance, with these pots, you’re buying a one-of-a-kind item, a weird little art that is also functional. If you can afford it, and would like to support my work so I can make more of these, then this is a great way to do so. If you need to wait a couple days until the prices are what I “normally” sell the work for, then that’s fine too. It’s a bit of an experiment. The pots will be regularly priced on Saturday. There will be more pots in a couple weeks, too.

Something else new: if you have been into my book cups, you can get your own book cup for either your own book/your friend’s book (or a book in the public domain, I suppose). Makes a great gift for authors. I interpret your book cover and then match it. Here are a couple of examples below. It takes selecting the correct clay body, figuring out what makes sense with the cover and contents, and developing glazes to color match, with repeated firings to get it just right. That means a somewhat more expensive setup. Email me if you’re interested.

Just one example, probably not in great light, but you get the idea. You should absolutely read this book.

An early iteration of The School for Good Mothers (100% a book you should read too):

Such a good book. Have you read it? You should read it. Incredibly dark.

And of course, here’s the link to shop.