Pottery by Osa
I’m making terra sigillata from the clay I collected from my birthplace last summer. I’ve been invited to a show called “Clay as Place: The Transient Object” and it reminds me that my #WildClay collection is a mirror of my experience with transience—moving, touring and visiting. But when I went and collected that clay from the duck pond in Virginia, I could be certain that it’s the same earth that was there when I was four years old, throwing the birds stale bread.
Mar 1 at 6:03pmIceCubesApp
Show threadGoodNewsGreyShoes🔞(on hiatus)Mar 1

@potterybyosa That's an amazing way to connect with your past, both in memory & place.🥹💕

Cannot wait to see what you do with it! 🙌💯

Show threadklineolaMar 2
@potterybyosa I love this story! Geology and memory are connected.
Show threadPottery by OsaMar 2
@klineola happy to see you here!
Show threadklineolaMar 2
@potterybyosa thanks! My assistant was telling me about why he isn’t on any social media except Mastadon and I remembered that I had signed up a while back but haven’t been active.
Show threadPottery by OsaMar 2
@klineola who is your assistant?
Show threadklineolaMar 2
@potterybyosa Ethan Katz. He was a student of mine at Penland last year.
Show threadPottery by OsaMar 2
@klineola just wondering if he uses the app to share his work. Would like to follow him.
Show threadLisa Makes Stuff (she/her)Mar 3
@potterybyosa I take it that this is a watered down clay? And that you use it to decorate other objects/vessels? How do you make it: do you just add water to the clay?
Show threadPottery by OsaMar 3
@lisamakesstuff Yes, it's just watered down clay, but it's a refined clay solution. I use sodium silicate as a deflocculant that causes the coarser particles to settle to the bottom and then I siphon off the silky layer on top and that's what I use to paint my pots. It's an ancient Roman technique, hence the Latin name.