The First Post

Ah, blogs. I love blogs, and I read a lot of them, especially artists' blogs. I love seeing artists' lives through their own eyes, especially when they write openly and honestly about their struggles as well as their triumphs. I love vicariously getting to know the people behind the work.

I lose interest in blogs that consist only of pictures, or that seem to be censored into a picture-perfect rendering of the artist's life. The reality is, things go wrong for everyone once in a while, and if you happen to work in clay, things go wrong often!

Despite this, I resisted writing a blog for a long time because I was afraid that then people would find out something most horrifying about me:

I HAVE ALMOST NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING.

It's true, I have really no idea how to be an artist. I've been working at it for a few years now, and although I almost never feel like I know what I'm doing, I look back now and I see that I've become an artist in spite of that. I'm not a full-time, professional, self-supporting artist, but I am a part-time artist who has managed to have some success amidst all the struggles.

So, rather than trying to write a blog that shows me only in my best light, I thought it would be far better for me, and far more interesting for you, to learn about my actual life in clay, with all its ups and downs. Maybe we'll both learn something along the way...