Bowls

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I ended up my glazing cycle with forty bowls for Food For Lane County's Empty Bowls Sale. I try to donate every year, somewhere between fifty and a hundred bowls. It's a fun process, where I can experiment with patterns, play around with rim treatments, and not take the end result too seriously. It also reminds me of growing up on the farm in Wisconsin. We were generally well-fed--three big gardens and our own livestock to butcher--but cash-poor, so my dad would always put aside a calf every year to raise and donate to our parish bazaar's annual livestock auction. The two local buyers would come in and bid against each other, to the church's benefit.

So I think of these as my calves...



Filled up the entire bottom shelf of the kiln, with a few left over to tuck in elsewhere. Think I'll do it again next firing.