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Fractal Pottery
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Ceramic artist in Cincinnati
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Finish sanding using my new Quark wheel and Diamond core sandpaper. Exterior of the piece is fully vitrified (0%) absorption unglazed porcelain. The sanded finish is a unique tactile experience.

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December 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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My first attempt at a saké sipper / ring bowl shape. I’m trimming the foot is surprisingly the hardest part since the inside is smaller than my smallest trimming tool.

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A tiny shallow bowl made from black porcelain, sanded on the outside to a smooth finish. The bowl has a pedestal foot the flairs out slightly at the bottom. The same bowl as the first image. This picture shows the side profile so the flared foot is more visible.
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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New garlic roaster design. This one is more angular to match my other pieces, and has a more abstract arrangement of the steam vents in the lid. The step in the base serves as a handle allowing the piece to be lifted while wearing oven mitts.

A conical lidded vessel made from black porcelain with a sanded unglazed finish. Blue glaze accents on the top of the lid and around the rim of the base. A spiral of vent holes adorns the side of the lid cone. The same lidded vessel with the lid partially removed and tilted back revealing the blue glazed interior of the base. Overhead view showing the blue glazed interior.
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Last two kind firings lined up my workbench. My glaze experiments did not work but everything else turned out good. Now I just have to sand. All. Of. It. 😫

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A wooden table covered in various pottery pieces all made from black porcelain with white accents and blue glaze on the inside. Mugs, cups, shot glasses, pour-overs, saké sippers
October 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I use tape to get clean glaze lines around rims and handles. It also serves as a spout to pour excess glaze back into the bucket.

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A wooden table with various bisqueware bowls, mugs, and pour-overs with blue painters tape around the rims and on handles. Close up of a mug with painter’s tape around the handle to create a line when glaze is applied between the handle and body. Close up of the mug with taped handle after glaze is applied and tape is partially removed showing how it leaves a clean glaze line in the handle Close up of mug with taped handle after fully removed showing the finished glaze application on the handle with a clean line where the glaze stops abruptly along the handle where it joins the body
October 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Sometimes I drink coffee while sanding pots but I have to be careful not to drink a cup full of sanding sludge by accident
Three coffe mugs sit on a damp concrete floor. One finished mug half full of coffee and two mugs at bisque stage with a wet sanding pad hanging from the lip of the left one.
October 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I’m all set up at the Milford Art Affaire on Main Street. We’ll be here all day with almost 150 artists. If you’re looking for something to do in the Cincinnati area today then come check it out!
September 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Here are some progress pics of my new garlic roaster design. See the finished pieces in person this Saturday at the Milford Art Affaire. As usual these are made from Blackice porcelain.

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September 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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I’ll be at the Milford Art Affair this Saturday. I hope to see you there!

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September 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Continuing the glaze experiments: here are the two new bases on the left with added stain and zircopax on the right. Sadly both still pinhole.

The top one I am concerned that the extra cloudiness is un-melted alumina hydrate which means it’s chemistry is not what it should be so it’s out.

June 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Trying out a new garlic roaster shape. This one is more angular in keeping with the rest of my work, but pays homage to my original design.

I throw this in 3 pieces: the base, the main body of the lid, and the top handle.

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Three black porcelain garlic roasters are drying on a metal shelf. Each garlic roaster resembles a lava lamp with the main conical section as the lid which rests in a gallery at rim of the base. The base is a cylinder which flares out at the top to accept the lid.
June 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Continuing the glaze tests, these are two alternate bases that I will try to use with the red encapsulated stain from my previous experiment. These are reformulated for lower LOI and potentially higher movement to help with the pinholing from the stain.
Two black porcelain test tiles sit on a table. The first one has a slightly blue tinted glossy glaze, the second one has a cloudy white glaze.
June 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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All set up in Cincinnati / East Walnut Hills for my first show of the year!
May 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Black porcelain soup-mug with white handle. Wheel thrown with a sanded finish on the outside and cobalt glaze on the inside. A diagonal line of white slip is inlaid on the front.

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April 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Catch me this Saturday at the Clay Alliance spring pottery fair!
April 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Another vase, this one in my usual cobalt glaze and a white slip inlay.

Sometimes I wonder if my style is too one-note but I’m the kind of person who listens to the same song for a month and having that come through in my pottery feels natural.

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April 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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I’ll call this another glaze experiment but I didn’t actually change the glaze since the last experiment I just thought it would look nice on this vase.

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A short black porcelain vase with a wide mouth and inlaid white porcelain band above the mid-section. The mouth and interior of the vase are glazed in a flowing purple glaze with white specks.
April 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A small conical black porcelain bud vase with a white slip band around the center where a mocha-diffusion pattern is applied. The tip and interior of the vase are glazed in blue.

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April 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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New glaze experiment. I want this one to be a bit darker and more vibrant, and I am still chasing a bubbling/pinholing issue, but it’s getting close. This is the same glaze on both pieces so I can see what it looks like on light and dark clay.
Two roughly thrown cups one with a white porcelain and one with black porcelain both glazed on their interiors. The glaze appears pink-ish on the white cup and purple-ish on the black cup.
April 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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I love trimming marbled pieces because removing the layer of blurry slip to reveal the crisp pattern underneath is incredibly satisfying. Like unwrapping a present.
April 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Nice throwing session last night making more marbled shot glasses. Despite their small size (only 5oz of clay) I throw these individually because I’m terrible at throwing off the hump. The marbling will be more striking once the outer slip is trimmed off tomorrow.

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A shot glass made from black and white porcelain stands freshly thrown on a potters wheel. A line of 7 thrown shot glasses, each on its own MDF batt lined up on a ware board. Overhead shot of a potter’s wheel with a partially thrown shot glass and other freshly thrown shot glasses placed on a ware board behind the wheel.
April 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Set of porcelain soup-mugs in progress. These will be dried slowly over the course of about 14 days in my enclosed shelf prior to their first firing.

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Set of 10 wide soup-mugs made from grey porcelain with white handles. Clay is still wet and not yet fired. Set of 10 wide soup-mug bodies made from grey porcelain. Handles are not yet attached. Clay is still wet and not yet fired. A swish of white slip has been inlaid onto the mug bodies. Set of 10 wide soup-mug bodies on MDF batts, having just been thrown on a potter’s wheel.
April 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Serving up some reclaim! I procrastinated this batch for way too long so it almost filled up my bucket.

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A bucket full of clay slip with a ladle doling out glops onto plaster bats. A dirty stick blender lays next to the bucket.
April 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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A black porcelain cup with white slip inlay and extruded handle. The white inlay is slip made from the failed handles of other mugs like this one.

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April 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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A simple marbled cup. Porcelain wheelthrown with black and white clay.

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April 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM