I can’t totally explain why, but I’ve recently found myself in the mood to make bowls again. Maybe it’s that I’ve been drawn towards a more visceral and tactile studio process lately. Perhaps my growing ceramics collection is inspiring me to make my own vessels. Of course, could be that hammering on metal is fun and makes you feel like a badass for turning a flat sheet of metal into a bowl! Whatever the reasons, I decided to give into the urge and roll out my raising cart. (Which is really just an Ikea kitchen cart with a vise clamped to it, but it works.)
And even though it’s been a while since I’ve last made a bowl, I decided to make the biggest bowl I’ve ever made and start with a 12″ disc of copper! It turns out, it takes four times longer to make a bowl from a 12″ disc than a 6″ disc because geometry. (Four times the surface area means four times more hammering!
This big bowl still has a way to go, but I’m enjoying the process.
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