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[sparse piano chords]
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♪
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[oboe leads
calm orchestration]
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[scraping noise]
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♪
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(man)
People always say, oh,
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it must be just like Christmas
opening a kiln...
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♪
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but it's not, really.
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There's a lot more anxiety
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because there's
so much work that--
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that goes into each firing,
each load of pots.
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♪
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It's a really private,
personal time
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and can be really wonderful,
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but it can also be
really pretty difficult.
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And I can't even really
objectively see the pots
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for...about two weeks.
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♪
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Once you can let
your expectations melt away...
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♪
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then you can actually
look at the pot and see it.
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They, um--
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they really reveal themselves
very slowly to you.
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♪
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The cold never bothers me...
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'cause I--
I grew up in New England.
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I like the cold;
I like a real winter.
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[soft piano melody resonates]
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♪
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There are days, certainly,
when I wake up out here
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and I wonder and I question,
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what motivated me
to be out here?
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[strings support piano]
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♪
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And I think
that maybe there was a--
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a small percentage
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that was running away
from something.
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♪
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And there's days when,
very clearly,
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I feel like I needed
to put this space here.
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♪
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[quick whistled note]
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[animal footfalls]
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Came down to North Carolina
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to go to college
at Guilford in Greensboro,
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talked my way into a class
with Charlie Tefft,
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who runs the ceramic program.
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It was there that my eyes
were really opened
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to this huge world of clay
that exists in North Carolina.
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[oboe leads wandering piano]
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There was a potter
named Matt Jones,
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and I started
helping Matt fire.
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The first time
I went into his workshop,
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there was a smell about it,
and it has a dirt floor,
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and it was very dark,
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and something felt
really right about it.
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[sloshing]
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I felt, and I could really
put my head down
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and learn something.
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The apprenticeship
at Matt Jones's
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was structured
in the same way
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that his apprenticeships
were structured.
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I would do chores
like chop wood,
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mix glazes, mix clay.
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As long as I had those things
taken care of,
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I could also make pots.
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[off-screen]
Corey, these
are little coffee mugs.
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They're sort of
a variation
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of that Cole mug
that I love
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from Sanford,
North Carolina.
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[voice-over]
He would throw a pot.
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That was the sort of
small piece of perfection
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that I was striving for.
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I actually think
that somewhere in between--
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[voice-over]
And the rest of the day,
I would look at that pot,
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and I would try to mimic it.
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♪
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And you need to sorta
sacrifice your ego.
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If you can't do that,
this type of apprenticeship
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will prove
to be very difficult.
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Keep it a little
wider at the top.
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[voice-over]
It's bigger than just you.
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You're part of a whole arc.
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I worked with Matt;
Matt worked with Mark Hewitt.
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Mark Hewitt
was with Todd Piker.
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They were with Michael Cardew
in England.
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Cardew was Bernard Leach's
first apprentice.
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We're all sort of
in it together
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and pushing
each other forward.
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[rustling]
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North Carolina's really a--
a land made of clay.
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It's everywhere.
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[machine whirring]
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I can number the first time
that I used a local clay,
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and it was
a huge amount of work,
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and it's incredibly
labor-intensive
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to refine it and process it.
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But it threw beautifully,
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and the color was beautiful,
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and it had all this character.
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[slapping]
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But the throwing,
I struggle with it.
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[strings support piano melody]
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♪
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I think
that's a funny illusion,
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that art is joy
'cause it's not always joy.
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And I think a lot of good art
comes from struggle...
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and there's good days,
and there's bad days.
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♪
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The way that I throw is--
it's looking at older pots,
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especially older pots
from North Carolina,
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and looking at characteristics
of those pots.
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Since most of those pots
were made for function,
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it was important
that they were light,
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and so there's certain things
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that I really
beat myself up about,
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trying to make them
as light as possible.
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♪
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But they have to look good
sitting--
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a nice, midcentury home
or a modern home.
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I mean,
that's the real challenge
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for me now, I feel,
is the pots
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fit into a broader context
of the world,
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not just be suited
for a country cottage.
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[orchestration thickens]
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♪
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But every once in a while,
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it's kind of nice
to come back to an older form.
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♪
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There's an elegance
to a pitcher
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that I don't really
wanna mess with.
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Instead, it's just a slow
refinement of the form.
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[oboe leads piano]
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♪
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I mean, they had to make
a lot of these.
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They had to be
very proficient,
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but they still added
a little bit of themselves
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into each one.
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They still had the touch
of the maker.
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♪
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The technique
that I use to decorate pots
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is calledslip trailing,
and it's an old technique.
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You can see it
all over the world
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in all different
pottery traditions,
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and it's something I express
a little of myself in that,
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and that's certainly
what people
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seem to recognize me for
is my slip trailing.
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♪
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I grew up with both
my mother and father,
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practicing artists.
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As long as I can remember,
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they were
in their studios working.
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That is what I saw,
so to be an artist,
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nobody would raise
an eyebrow at it.
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It was like the doctor's son
going to med school.
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♪
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Being up here every day,
it turns into a juggling act.
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♪
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[sloshing]
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Certain ones need to be
attended to at certain times,
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and they need to be decorated.
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These need to be glazed,
and these need to be trimmed.
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Watching the racks
fill up with pots,
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it's really fantastic.
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♪
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Hah, hah!
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What'd you ruin?
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I erased it, and--
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Well, you can just
turn this into a leaf.
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But I tried
to do that,
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and then it looked
ridiculous--heh!
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[sizzling]
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[indistinct talking]
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(man)
Connie and I met
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in Madison County
at a farmers' market
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in the bottom
of the old roller rink
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in Mars Hill...
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and she worked
for a goat dairy
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in northern Madison County.
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She was selling goat cheese.
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We spent that first winter
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driving back and forth
on these snowy roads--
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it was the craziest winter
that we've had in years--
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through two feet of snow.
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She's watched this go
from an old tobacco field
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to what it is today
and been part of that change.
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She's really hugely important.
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[horns and drums lead]
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Our year
is broken into cycles,
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and right now,
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I've fired the kiln
four times,
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so that's
four different cycles.
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As I'm making the pots,
I sort of have an idea of,
08:59.338 --> 09:01.874 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
in my head, where they're
gonna go in the kiln.
09:01.974 --> 09:04.443 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[off-screen]
Let's come over
towards me just a hair.
09:04.544 --> 09:05.711 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
That's good.
09:05.811 --> 09:07.213 align:left position:40%,start line:65% size:50%
It's OK;
it's OK.
09:07.313 --> 09:09.815 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
[voice-over]
It's a puzzle
to fit them all in.
09:09.916 --> 09:11.551 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
[harp leads]
09:11.651 --> 09:13.853 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
[off-screen]
I think the short,
fat one, yeah--
09:13.953 --> 09:15.454 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
bring--
bring me that one.
09:15.555 --> 09:17.189 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
[voice-over]
For the most part,
09:17.290 --> 09:18.925 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
pots farther back
in the kiln
09:19.025 --> 09:21.127 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
have more decoration,
more glaze.
09:21.227 --> 09:23.896 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
09:23.996 --> 09:26.566 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
The farther you are
in the front of the kiln,
09:26.666 --> 09:29.835 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
the more ash and salt the pots
are gonna have on them
09:29.936 --> 09:32.905 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
because the hottest part
of the kiln is in the front,
09:33.005 --> 09:35.708 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
so they don't need
as much surface decoration,
09:35.808 --> 09:37.310 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
but the form is important,
09:37.410 --> 09:39.045 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
but then,
the form will interact
09:39.145 --> 09:40.646 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
with the ash deposit
09:40.746 --> 09:42.715 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
that the flame
will put on them.
09:42.815 --> 09:46.485 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
So that relies on the fire
to do all of the work.
09:46.586 --> 09:48.554 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
09:48.654 --> 09:51.691 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
Well, that's the most intense
moment because you've got
09:51.791 --> 09:54.360 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
two or three months
of work behind you,
09:54.460 --> 09:56.862 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
and you load it into the kiln,
09:56.963 --> 10:00.733 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
and then, you sorta
step back away from it.
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[wood snapping]
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There is an element
of serendipity and chance
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that you have in that process
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that doesn't exist in many
other artistic processes.
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[strings hold high note]
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I still have control,
but there's certainly
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a lotta things
that are happening in the kiln
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that you don't have
control over.
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[bells lead
as arrangement swells]
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[fire crackling]
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♪
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[sustained violin chord]
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I think,
in my situation,
10:37.169 --> 10:41.674 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
I had to kind of run away
to find myself.
10:41.774 --> 10:44.410 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[piano melody emerges]
10:44.510 --> 10:46.145 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
So, my family history,
10:46.245 --> 10:50.049 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
if we wanna talk
about my family history...
10:50.149 --> 10:53.352 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
is Henri Matisse, um,
10:53.452 --> 10:57.556 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
the painter,
who had some children,
10:57.657 --> 11:01.894 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
one of whom was Pierre,
who's my grandfather.
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I grew up
with this stuff around me.
11:04.597 --> 11:09.168 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
I mean, it was just
an everyday part of our lives.
11:09.268 --> 11:12.872 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
We never talked about Henri.
11:12.972 --> 11:17.977 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
It was always sort of
a great elephant in the room.
11:18.077 --> 11:22.515 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
There's a--
a power behind it that, um--
11:22.615 --> 11:25.184 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
that certainly
doesn't go away,
11:25.284 --> 11:29.321 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
and every time
you walk through an exhibit,
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it always kinda
leaves me speechless
11:31.991 --> 11:35.528 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
because what--
what do you do in that wake
11:35.628 --> 11:38.497 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
when that's always behind you?
11:38.597 --> 11:40.332 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
[fire crackling]
11:40.433 --> 11:42.368 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
There are times when it feels
11:42.468 --> 11:45.104 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
like the shadow
that's cast by those figures
11:45.204 --> 11:49.475 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
is kind of too broad to ever
get out from underneath...
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[oboe leads]
11:51.677 --> 11:54.847 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
but nothing that, I think,
putting your head down
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and getting to work
won't resolve.
11:57.717 --> 12:01.554 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
12:01.654 --> 12:05.458 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
And being here
sort of pushed me forward
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to make the best work
that I can make.
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It didn't really matter
what my last name was
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because people
started to recognize me
12:16.635 --> 12:18.537 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
for what I was doing.
12:18.637 --> 12:25.411 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
12:25.511 --> 12:28.013 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
[fire roaring]
12:29.648 --> 12:32.918 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
So this is the third
and final day of the firing.
12:33.018 --> 12:35.354 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
[machine humming]
12:35.454 --> 12:37.223 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
[off-screen]
It's good.
12:37.323 --> 12:39.391 align:left position:42.5%,start line:65% size:47.5%
Enough.
12:39.492 --> 12:40.760 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
[machine ceases]
12:40.860 --> 12:43.896 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
Right now, we're at top
temperature in the front.
12:43.996 --> 12:45.631 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
The clay is mature;
it's done.
12:45.731 --> 12:47.933 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
We're just building up
ash deposits on the clay,
12:48.033 --> 12:50.369 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
building up the character
of the clay body.
12:50.469 --> 12:52.972 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
Right now, Josh is stoking,
and the door's open,
12:53.072 --> 12:54.540 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
so the temperature's dropping.
12:54.640 --> 12:56.675 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
As he stokes,
it'll take a minute.
12:56.776 --> 12:58.978 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
There's always a lag.
13:02.081 --> 13:04.083 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
And as it's catching,
right in the beginning,
13:04.183 --> 13:05.851 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
the kiln
will go into reduction,
13:05.951 --> 13:08.754 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
meaning there's too much fuel
and not enough oxygen,
13:08.854 --> 13:11.023 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
but as that fuel
starts to burn,
13:11.123 --> 13:12.925 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
then we'll see
the temperature
13:13.025 --> 13:15.795 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
start to go up,
as it is.
13:15.895 --> 13:17.663 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
And this kiln
is very responsive.
13:17.763 --> 13:19.932 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
It also depends
on the wood you're burning.
13:20.032 --> 13:22.134 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
This wood is mostly pine
and poplar,
13:22.234 --> 13:24.370 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
and it's been drying
for about three months,
13:24.470 --> 13:26.405 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
so it's really dry.
13:26.505 --> 13:28.607 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
It's ready to burn.
13:30.543 --> 13:32.545 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
So after a stoke
in the front,
13:32.645 --> 13:35.881 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
you'll see a huge flame
coming out the chimney.
13:35.981 --> 13:38.217 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
Once that flame
comes back into the chimney,
13:38.317 --> 13:39.819 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
then, you know,
the atmosphere--
13:39.919 --> 13:41.687 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
it's kind of cleared up
in there--
13:41.787 --> 13:43.556 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
the back is ready for a stoke.
13:43.656 --> 13:44.924 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
OK, go ahead?
13:45.024 --> 13:46.192 align:left position:40%,start line:65% size:50%
(Matisse)
Yup.
13:46.292 --> 13:47.927 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
[voice-over]
It's important in the back
13:48.027 --> 13:49.995 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
because that's where
all the glazed ware is.
13:50.095 --> 13:51.597 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
It's important
to get temperature
13:51.697 --> 13:53.199 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
so the glazes will melt,
13:53.299 --> 13:55.768 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
and I formulate my glazes
to be a little stiffer
13:55.868 --> 13:57.503 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
because this kiln gets so hot,
13:57.603 --> 13:59.572 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
and you need it
to be really hot
13:59.672 --> 14:01.907 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
to get that temperature
in the back.
14:02.007 --> 14:03.943 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
[piano leads
calm orchestration]
14:04.043 --> 14:05.911 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
14:06.011 --> 14:08.547 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
Once in a while,
towards the end of a firing,
14:08.647 --> 14:11.450 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
I'll pull out a cup or
something small from the front.
14:11.550 --> 14:13.485 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
14:13.586 --> 14:15.554 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
I'm never actually
in love with the pots
14:15.654 --> 14:17.623 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
that I pull out
because a lot happens
14:17.723 --> 14:19.358 align:left position:15%,start line:65% size:75%
from the time you stop firing
14:19.458 --> 14:21.660 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
to the time
they come out of the kiln.
14:21.760 --> 14:24.763 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
What it does give me
is a sense of how much ash
14:24.864 --> 14:27.066 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
and how much salt
I have on the pots.
14:27.166 --> 14:29.368 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
This has
a pretty thin shino on it,
14:29.468 --> 14:31.871 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
which has gotten a little
darker in the reduction--
14:31.971 --> 14:33.606 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
the heat in the front,
14:33.706 --> 14:36.408 align:left position:12.5%,start line:65% size:77.5%
that I would like
a little more ash on this pot,
14:36.508 --> 14:38.143 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
so I'll probably
just keep goin'
14:38.244 --> 14:39.879 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
for another hour or two.
14:39.979 --> 14:42.381 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
[oboe leads]
14:42.481 --> 14:50.956 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
14:51.056 --> 14:53.259 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
I had this sort of notion
14:53.359 --> 14:55.995 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
of wanting
to go into the woods
14:56.095 --> 14:57.997 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
and come out and--
14:58.097 --> 15:00.266 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
and have this skill...
15:00.366 --> 15:02.468 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
15:02.568 --> 15:05.771 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
and have something to--
to offer the world.
15:05.871 --> 15:09.808 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
I wanted to create a place
that would eventually
15:09.909 --> 15:12.011 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
have its own energy
15:12.111 --> 15:14.947 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
and attract other people.
15:15.047 --> 15:16.815 align:left position:30%,start line:65% size:60%
It is doing that.
15:16.916 --> 15:19.585 align:left position:20%,start line:65% size:70%
It is opening itself up.
15:19.685 --> 15:22.288 align:left position:17.5%,start line:65% size:72.5%
The evolution is very slow.
15:22.388 --> 15:24.456 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪
15:24.556 --> 15:26.725 align:left position:27.5%,start line:65% size:62.5%
You're not gonna
hit a point one day
15:26.825 --> 15:28.594 align:left position:35%,start line:65% size:55%
and wake up,
and suddenly,
15:28.694 --> 15:30.696 align:left position:32.5%,start line:65% size:57.5%
you're there;
you've arrived.
15:30.796 --> 15:32.932 align:left position:25%,start line:65% size:65%
I have to work at it.
15:33.032 --> 15:34.934 align:left position:22.5%,start line:65% size:67.5%
[bells and piano lead]
15:35.034 --> 15:40.105 align:left position:50%,start line:65% size:40%
♪