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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.
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Wednesday we did a raku firing at Good Dirt, Athens, GA. #ceramics #raku
October 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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)
October 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Workin' Bowl Blues #ceramics
August 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Stay gold, pony boy!
#ceramics #jar #amaco_PC-2
August 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Family-provided underglaze designs: sibling sunflower; a copy of niece's beach drawing
August 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This mug drinks well; its outer glaze (floating blue) ran amok but narrowly avoided sticking to the shelf.
#ceramics
July 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
green bowl
#ceramics
June 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Fab collab action shots of BHware (fader affordance gimmick mugz)!
June 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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.
June 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Chickadee mug QA approved. (comfortable lip and handle; hint of attitude)
#ceramics #chickadee
May 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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
May 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Bric-à-brac #ceramics in the yard — taking a break from post-storm oak limb removal & arbor repair. 😘
May 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Vintage cartoons (2016-2018)

#drawing #cartoon
April 2, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Polite spider requests the pleasure of insect company on this tulip at seven thirty p.m.
April 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Customer coffee action shot
+ mug baby pictures.
All grown up, they're now city slickers in Decatur, Georgia.

#ceramics
March 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
1. Camellia mug; sold to an art director/visual designer
2. Current "thunderdome" champion (most usable yet, per my own relentless QA testing)

#ceramics
March 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thank you for playing Athens, GA, @anoushkashankar.bsky.social
Delightful performance!
March 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Pear soap opera s1e5:
Season finale!
💛💚
Marion takes a bath before his blind date with Crispin at the amusement park.
#pear #ceramics
March 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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
March 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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
March 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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
March 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Pear soap opera s1e1: Companionship Imminent

#ceramics #pear
February 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
A camellia mug and the tree that inspired and modeled for it
#ceramics
February 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Reposted by Ben Hesse
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