Hello. World.

Well this is it, the first post. So, Let me sum up what this blog is supposed to be about. It's mostly going to be a pottery blog. I'm an amateur, or maybe, affectionado is a better term, but anyways, I'm going to be doing my first gallery in December (wow) and at the suggestion of my older sis, I'm going to document what I'm doing. Did I mention that I live in Japan? That has a lot to do with why I'm doing this. I took up pottery about 6 years ago, give or take, and I really fell in love, like it was love at first touch. I caught the "bug" as some put it. (My Sensei recently called me an otaku!) But I've only ever done it as a hobby, and really only regularly for a while, like in other words, I haven't been doing this nonstop for 6 years. I say that because I just want to clarify my amateur-ness. Really I feel like a beginner. But anyways, I'm doing my first gallery in December, that's in two months!! I need 100 pieces for the show. and right now I'm at about 30-something. So, I got to really bust my hump, no pun intended. This experience is already really expanding my abilities, and the way I think about pottery. For example, its not enough to simply have 100 pieces, It's important for me that they somehow fit together to form a body of work, they have to have some continuity. Anyways, while that's what I want, I'm struggling just to make sets of bowls that are all the same size... I want to say a lot more, and I'm sure I will as the posts start rolling in.