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That moment a retired potter showed me how to properly wedge clay at a county fair demo last summer
She spent 20 minutes correcting my wrist angle and said 'you're fighting the clay instead of listening to it' and I still think about that whenever I sit down at the wheel, has anyone else had a random stranger totally reshape how you approach your work?
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quinnm9016d ago
100 bucks says my clay has never heard a word I said.
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baker.riley19d ago
That "listening to the clay" line is spot on. I read something once about how the best woodworkers talk about "reading the grain" and it's the same idea. You can't just muscle through the material, you have to feel what it's trying to do. People spend years learning techniques but the real secret is just paying attention to what you're working with.
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