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#183 Unlocking Creativity Through Wabi Sabi: Embracing Imperfection in Pottery and Personal Growth
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What if embracing imperfections in your pottery could unlock your full creative potential? Join us as we explore the Japanese concept of Wabi Sabi and its transformative impact on our growth as artists with the talented Emily Adams.
In this eye-opening episode, we discuss the importance of practicing Wabi Sabi not just for pottery, but also for our personal development. Discover how accepting imperfections and enjoying the process can lead to new creative ideas and a more fulfilling artistic journey.
Don't miss the opportunity to join our upcoming three-day workshop for wheel thrown potters looking to discover their own unique voice. Reserve your spot now and elevate your pottery skills!
Join the 3 Day Find Your Pottery Voice Workshop on June 12th - June 14th by clicking here shapingyourpottery.com/3dayworkshop
The Questions we ask will determine how our pottery will look like that's why I created a Free 15 questions to help you discover your voice template go grab it here www.shapingyourpottery.com/questions
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Transcript
The Role of Questions in Pottery
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Real quick before we get started, did you know that the questions that we asked are going to determine what our pottery is going to look like and is going to determine what our voice is going to look like? That's why I created 15 questions that you can use right now to start discovering your own unique
Finding Your Voice in Pottery
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voice. Go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash questions to get this free booklet.
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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.
Understanding Wabi-Sabi in Pottery
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What is up, Shaping Nation? This is Nick Torres. And on this episode of Shaping Your Pottery, I'm going to be talking about why you should be practicing wabi-sabi with your pottery to help you grow and find your voice.
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For those that don't know what wabi-sabi is, wabi-sabi is the art of practicing imperfection with your pottery. It's a Japanese term to practice imperfection.
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And I just recently had a very great conversation with Emily Adams, and she contributes her growth as an artist to practicing wabi saphi. And she went on to saying that because she practices being imperfect and, you know, being grateful for what she is making, she says that that has helped her tremendously with growing as an artist and with being able to enjoy the process a lot more.
Embracing Imperfections for Growth
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And I'm gonna encourage you to also practice wabi-sabi with your product because in pottery, as many of you know, that nothing can be perfect all the time. You can probably have a good piece maybe about every four out of 10 times and then every, the rest of the six out of 10 times, it's either not gonna turn out how you want or it's gonna turn out completely different or it's gonna be complete crap, right? And that's why it's important to practice wabi-sabi.
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It's important to practice not being perfect with your pottery because we don't need our pottery to be perfect all the time. We don't need it to be perfect all the time because if it's perfect all the time, then what happens is we're not growing our pottery, we're not growing our skills, we're getting stagnant because everything is staying perfect. Perfect is only good on paper, in math, right?
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you can never be truly perfect at anything so it's important to practice wabi-sabi and embrace these imperfections that you have with your pottery so maybe you are making something right now and every single time you are making it right now it's just not turning out how you want it and there's a bunch of imperfections what if you start embracing those imperfections
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and start learning from them and start embracing them, what do you think that would do to your own pottery? And what do you think that would do to you growing as an artist? Because we're going to have days when we're going to be we're going to be on it. We're going to have everything is going to go right for us. But also, there's going to be those days when we're going to be complete crap. Everything is going to pretty much kind of turn to crap. Everything is not going to be perfect.
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And those are the days when we really have to practice wabi-sabi. We have to practice this because if we can get better at accepting these imperfections, then we can start coming up with new ideas on how to incorporate them into our own pottery.
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So that's why I believe it is truly important for us to practice wabi sabhi. If you can start practicing wabi sabhi right now, today, then your pottery is going to go a lot further and your voice is going to go a lot further because you are accepting these imperfections and you are accepting things and you're going to start learning more things and you're going to start enjoying the process a lot more.
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So go out there and start embracing wabi-sabi. Remember, embrace imperfections and embrace the process. That's how your pottery is going to grow and that's how you will find your voice.
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Hey, thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery.
Discover Your Unique Voice - Workshop Announcement
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If you are someone who is looking to discover their own unique voice with their pottery and you are someone who likes to throw on the wheel, I am hosting a three-day workshop for potters who'd like to throw on the wheel who are also looking to discover their own unique voice with their pottery.
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It costs $50 and it starts on June 12th and it ends on June 14th. There are limited seats available so if you would like to be a part of this workshop and learn how to discover your own unique voice with your wheel thrown pottery then go to ShapingYourPottery.com forward slash three day workshop in order to reserve your spot.
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And that is the number three, not the word three. So if you want to reserve your spot, then go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash three day workshop. I hope to see you guys there and I hope you guys enjoy this episode.