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Ben Hesse
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Tall bowl with blue decorative slip and a Burke's Celadon lip. It has a nice ring to it.
Bowl with a light green lip and a blue base Upside-down bowl decorated with blue slip and light green glaze
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Wednesday we did a raku firing at Good Dirt, Athens, GA. #ceramics #raku
Bud vase with iridescent raku finish (Rick's turquoise outside, white crackle inside) Several raku-glazed pieces. White crackle vases and skull. Vase with red terra sigillata outside and Rick's turquoise inside. Black markings applied with horse hair and snake skin. crackle skull detail
October 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Slightly conical flagon; a successful deviation from my more customary tulip-shaped mugs. Very happy with this one.

(other features: bands of texture added with a serrated rib; Isla's Blue Bomb glaze + brighter blue accents from Burke's Celadon)
Blue mug with texture bands, side view Blue mug with texture bands, oblique view
October 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Workin' Bowl Blues #ceramics
Interior aspects of two blue bowls in a dish-drying rack; Ingredient/snack bowl (clear over Isla's blue bomb) and cereal/soup bowl (Licorice black over Isla's) Exterior aspects of two blue bowls in a dish-drying rack
August 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Stay gold, pony boy!
#ceramics #jar #amaco_PC-2
Iron oxide-stained ceramic skull jar with gold crown, outside view Iron oxide-stained ceramic skull jar with gold-glazed interior
August 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Family-provided underglaze designs: sibling sunflower; a copy of niece's beach drawing
mug with sunflower design and spearmint green glazed inside mug back: frowning storm clouds, raindrops, and churning sea mug front: sun, smiling clouds, and row of waves
August 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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This mug drinks well; its outer glaze (floating blue) ran amok but narrowly avoided sticking to the shelf.
#ceramics
Left side view of a handmade turquoise mug of coffee Right side view of handmade turquoise mug
July 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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green bowl
#ceramics
bottom view of pentagonally altered bowl side view of pentagonally altered bowl top view of pentagonally altered bowl
June 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Fab collab action shots of BHware (fader affordance gimmick mugz)!
Patch cable and mug still life; arranged by Jason NeSmith Photo by Brinda Cockburn: pair of BH audio mugs (2024 prototype and its "perfect" reiteration), pictured with her yellow teapot).
June 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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I broke the best bowl I ever made while washing dishes, but it's no problem. These will be blue with accents after they're fired.
side view of a glazed bisque bowl before glaze firing (isla's blue with licorice black accents) top view of a glazed bisque bowl before glaze firing (isla's blue with licorice black accents) top view of a glazed bisque bowl before glaze firing (isla's blue with warm jade green accents)
June 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Chickadee mug QA approved. (comfortable lip and handle; hint of attitude)
#ceramics #chickadee
May 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Dusted off my figure drawing yesterday evening at Georgia Museum of Art.

This weekend you can catch the closing days of the exhibit, "Beyond the Medici: The Haukohl Family Collection" #drawing #GMOA
Graphite drawing of seated figure holding a lyre, in a cross-legged with laurels around his neck
May 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Bric-à-brac #ceramics in the yard — taking a break from post-storm oak limb removal & arbor repair. 😘
hanging clay ornament, in the shape of human phalanges finger bone ornament oriented in hand to demonstrate scale, which is about 120% of an actual middle finger. toric closed form with base, top view; yet-to-be-hung hanging plant pot, bottom view of drainage holes hanging plant pot and toric vase, side / oblique view
May 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Vintage cartoons (2016-2018)

#drawing #cartoon
Small rotund man's arm gestures and necktie spell "SAD" "Old Beefs": a wheelchair-enabled steak with senile dentition represents longstanding, stubbornly held grievance Blackbeard, with a gracious plenty of pistols, demonstrates an occupational hazard: gravity
April 2, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Polite spider requests the pleasure of insect company on this tulip at seven thirty p.m.
Spider on tulip blossom White tulip
April 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Customer coffee action shot
+ mug baby pictures.
All grown up, they're now city slickers in Decatur, Georgia.

#ceramics
A pair of mugs and a coffee maker 📸: Eric Shoemaker Mug decorated with camellia design Greenware mug with underglaze textural sketch Stealth blue on black cup-pour glaze on mug before firing
March 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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1. Camellia mug; sold to an art director/visual designer
2. Current "thunderdome" champion (most usable yet, per my own relentless QA testing)

#ceramics
Mug decorated with a hand-painted slip and underglaze camellia blossom Mug decorated with a hand-painted slip and underglaze camellia blossom Side view of turquoise mug Oblique front/side view of turquoise mug
March 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Thank you for playing Athens, GA, @anoushkashankar.bsky.social
Delightful performance!
interior shot of Hodgson Concert Hall, UGA Photo of Anoushka Shankar printed in an event booklet pencil sketch of Anouska, band, and cast shadows (drawing in the dark) Anoushka performing (drawing in the dark)
March 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Pear soap opera s1e5:
Season finale!
💛💚
Marion takes a bath before his blind date with Crispin at the amusement park.
#pear #ceramics
Pear sculpture toweling off with a dish rag by the kitchen sink Two anthropomorphic ceramic pear sculptures living their best life
March 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Pear soap opera s1e4!!!
As Crispin crazes on the sideboard, Marion continues to collect dust... high on a shelf in the kitchen. Stay tuned for the season finale!

Episode 4 is sponsored by daffodil mug (yellow and white slip, orange underglaze, spearmint and clear glaze).

#pear #ceramics
Smiling porcelain pear sculpture flanked by stoneware lidded jars Mug decorated with a daffodil blossom
March 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Pear soap opera s1e3:
Crispin emerges from the glaze kiln.

Per his nascent volunteer writing staff:
• "At the moment Crispin is single - and he is a philosopher/poet."
• The O.G. pear (introduced in e1) is named Marion.
#ceramics #pear
Ceramic sculpture of a glossy yellow-green pear with a smiling face Glazed pear sculpture on a shelf among a clutter of drying greenware and art supplies
March 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Pear soap opera s1e2
• The pear has a name: "Crispin"! (thanks Brinda)
• Crispin is bisque fired and now awaits glaze firing
• bonus non sequitur daffodil
porcelain sculpture of a pear with a smiling face and yellow slip finish, bisque fired Pear sculpture coated with Burke's celadon, on a shelf among other pottery to be glaze fired pale yellow daffodil with a saturated yellow center, backlit by the sun
March 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Pear soap opera s1e1: Companionship Imminent

#ceramics #pear
Collection of objects: Mais Luoco cup, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom metal lunchbox, glazed ceramic pear (1991), Mathew Munier mug (2024) Standard mug with Highwater P10 handle (🤷‍♀️) and pear closed form Porcelain pear decorated with yellow and brown slip Mug with slip flower and pear with sculpted face
February 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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A camellia mug and the tree that inspired and modeled for it
#ceramics
greenware clay mug with camellia design bisque fired mug with camellia design coffee in finished glazed mug with camellia design
February 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.
February 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM