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#137 Sometimes You Just Need A New Perspective With Your Pottery
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What is up Shaping Nation on this episode of Shaping Your Pottery I am talking about looking in a different area to find your voice
You will learn about sometimes you just need a new perspective with your pottery
Take this Free Quiz to help you find your pottery voice click here to take the quiz shapingyourpottery.com/quiz
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Introduction to Shaping Your Pottery
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If you love pottery and want to take your skills to the next level, you're in the right place. Find your own pottery style right here on Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. Let's get started.
Finding Your Unique Pottery Voice
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What is up, Shaping Nation? This is Nick Torres here. And on this episode of Shaping Your Pottery, I'm going to be talking about looking in a different area, different spot to find your voice.
Ben Carter's Cultural Exploration
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You see, I just had a really, really great conversation with Ben Carter. I learned so much from this episode. But basically one of the things that he said was that when he was in college, he used to look at
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I want to say it was Peruvian or Persian. It was Persian pottery. And he liked that a lot. So he would kind of try to make it his own. He would try to use that culture and use it for himself. But then one day his his professor came up to him and she said that it's fine that you're making that pottery.
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But in a subtle way, she pretty much told him that it's not his culture and that he should be looking elsewhere to find his voice.
Developing a Unique Style through Heritage
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That led him down the road to working towards his Appalachian and quilting heritage that he grew up with. And that's how he found his voice and that's how his voice began to develop because he started looking in a different place.
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You see, you may have things that you really like to make with your pottery and you are trying to mimic or model other potters or other cultures that you see. But you see sometimes that voice isn't truly our own because we're just kind of modeling and copying other people.
Broadening Creative Exploration
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Sometimes we have to look in just a little bit of a different area. Just maybe turn your head just a little bit more and look at the broader picture. You see sometimes we get so focused on one thing that we forget there's so many things out there. You know we get tunnel vision of what our pottery, what we want our pottery to look like. We think that because that is something that we really like
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that we should be trying to incorporate into our own pottery, which is completely fine. I teach you that all the time that you must start with what you like to make in order to find your voice.
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But if you are too focused on just that one thing and you're getting tunnel vision, you're missing so many other things that can help you improve your pottery and make your pottery look that much better.
New Perspectives in Pottery
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I'm telling you this again. How can you look in just a little bit of a different angle or a different way or different place to help you come up with new ideas and start having your own voice? You see, if you're looking at other people's cultures and your other people's potteries,
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It's completely fine if you do that. You're gonna get a lot of ideas that way. But if you look at things that relate more to yourself, then your voice is gonna grow so much and you're gonna be able to find your voice that much better and your pottery is gonna look that much better because you're simply looking in a different direction. You don't have to look at the same exact spot every single time. Even if you like the pottery that you're making or somebody else is making,
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Try looking in a different area of somewhere else that you think that you like. So you can get a new perspective on things. If you get a new perspective on things in your pottery, you're going to grow so much.
Discover Your Pottery Voice Quiz
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I hope you guys enjoyed this episode and I hope you guys take the action to look somewhere else, look in a new perspective because I truly believe that if you look in a different area, then your pottery will grow significantly.
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Hey, thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery, Nick Torres. If you enjoyed this episode and you would like to learn how to discover your own unique voice with your pottery, I put together a free quiz to help you guys discover your own unique voice.
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All you have to do to take this quiz, it's very short, it's 30 seconds long, four questions. All you have to do to take this quiz is go to shapingyourpowder.com forward slash quiz to go start taking this quiz or you can just simply go to shapingyourpowder.com and be right at the top. I'll see you guys next time.