Biggest fattest lazy blip ever

Honestly 5 mins ago no blip or idea. Moved one of ikea chairs near the window, stuck a pot on it, one click of iPod, minor crop and bump up of exposure, straight away upload.

Consensus yesterday seemed to be this was the best glaze of those on show so this is another with it on. Terracotta clay.

Have had a very weird day. Good morning followed by feeling ill this afternoon. Think sleep deprivation kicking in. Think I went slightly loony for a bit. Bad stomach. Might write some more later but need to eat and finish some work first.

<Added later> OK, let's talk about pottery. You blip people are so kind, I love it.

I am not actually very good! You can't tell when you see the picture, but you can when you pick up the pot. They are not at all delicate, very heavy. I like using the wheel kind of but I have no control over what happens. I can make it come out nice and smooth and in a plausable shape, but it seems to happen by itself not to any kind of plan. A proper potter would be able to make the same shape over and over, or could look at a shape and reproduce it. But see I like the randomness of it. I love the feel of the clay on my hands. And also I don't want to be a machine. The potters wheel is partly about making functional similar things quickly and evenly, which is why it is a craft.

But really I like doing very elaborate decoration, which is absolutely not marketable. Yes you would buy it, but you wouldn't buy it at a fair price for the amount of time and effort I put in. For example the cup and saucer here probably took me about 10 hours to paint, plus maybe a £1 electricity to fire, plus the pot in the first place maybe £6. Let's say I charge a measly £5 an hour for my labour, that would make it £57. Quite an expensive cup and saucer and about 20% of my hourly rate at my current day job (albeit more enjoyable).

Now if I spent 10 hours painting a picture, it would be a pretty good picture, probably, and if I framed it well and even without a reputation, I might be able to get £100 for it, an orginal and all. And let's say I actually built up a reputation, well I could probably get say £250 - £500 for 10 hours painting. Do you see where I am going with this? 'Crafts' are seriously devalued.

Of course if I made the cup into something else and called it a sculpture, or really bull-shitted it up like say Duchamp and said it was a sculptural statement about the arts versus craft and the over imbellishment of and every day object, and I had been to St Martin's bloody college then I could perhaps charge Sachi and stupid Sachi a few grand for it. And if I was Damien Hirst I could just have the idea, get someone else to make it to a sketch I did on the back of a fag packet and charge £100,000 for it.

So some people may feel that they maybe have not achieved as much as they could have or would like to have because they dropped out of school or messed up. I am concluding that I feel I haven't achieved as much as I could have because I DIDN'T drop out of school. But I'm not bitter. I just enjoy giving nice things to my friends and family as presents that don't cost me very much other than my precious time.

Oh perhaps the final thing I should say is this stuff is all at least 5 years old, if not older. I haven't really done any pottery for 5 years as it takes a lot of time, makes a lot of mess and requires me to have some creative energy, which I have been lacking for a long time before I found this outlet here.