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#367 The secret to finding your voice with your pottery
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The importance of doing small alterations repeatedly to discover one's unique voice in pottery. Instead of striving for grand, extravagant changes, the speaker advises potters to focus on tiny adjustments, such as altering the shape of a pot or the design of a handle, to create something individualistic. The episode challenges listeners to reflect on recent work and identify one small change to implement, reinforcing the idea that innovation in pottery comes from consistent, small iterations. Additionally, the speaker offers a resource of 53 themes to help potters avoid burnout and establish a distinctive theme for their work.
Get your 53 themes by clicking this link shapingyourpottery.com/53themes
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Transcript
Discovering Your Pottery Voice
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Want to know the secret to being able to find your own voice with your pottery. Well, I'm gonna tell you What is up shaping nation? This is Nick Torres here And for those that don't know me it's my mission to help powers like yourselves cover your own unique voice with your pottery so here is the secret to finding your own unique voice with your pottery and It's simply Doing the small things over and over and over again. What do I mean by that? So
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When we're making pottery, we tend to think a little bit bigger with our pottery. You know, we have these ideas and we want to try to make pottery that looks really good or just makes us like feeds our soul.
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But in order to find our unique voice, we have to do the small things over and over again. You see, when it comes to finding your voice, you don't need to do something extravagant. You don't need to do something out of this world where you're making the craziest thing in the world. That's just not true. But what does matter is making tiny little alterations to your pottery
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until you find something that you think is going in the right
Personalizing Pottery Styles
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direction. Let's take for example you probably scroll through Instagram sometimes and you'll see a lot of people that use really cool drippy bright glazes and that's completely fine if you want to go down that route. And a lot of potters get in this zone where they feel like they don't have a unique voice because they're just kind of their pottery and their glazes kind of looks just like everybody else's.
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But here's what you could do, very small things that you could do to help you find and it's all about making tiny alterations. So let's say, for example, mugs are a very popular thing to that pretty much every potter makes, right? And you see a mug that somebody else makes and you love it. You love the glazes and you want to try to replicate that glaze because it's so cool. Here's what you can do. So on your handle, try to find out a way that is unique to you.
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Because they may be making a certain handle that maybe looks normal, let's say that. But if you do your own version of a handle, then that becomes your own unique voice.
Consistency in Pottery Design
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You do the same thing with the shape of the pot as well. Because they maybe do a certain shape, but you can do a different shape and that becomes your different, your voice. It's not about doing something extravagant. It's about doing these tiny little alterations over and over and over again until you have found something that works for you.
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Speaker
So that's why it's so important to make these tiny alterations and you can do it with anything in pottery, whether you're a hand builder, sculptor, wheel thrower and anything in between. Making these small tiny alterations, this is what's going to help you develop your own voice, not by doing these big, giant extravagant things by making these small alterations. So here is a challenge for you.
Fostering Unique Styles
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Whatever you made in the last week or so, I want you to look at that pot. Look at that pot and ask yourself, what is one small alteration I can make to this pot?
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And then once you have an answer, go do that alteration. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode and I'll see you guys in the next one.
Preventing Burnout with Themes
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themes that you can use and you can take all you have to do is go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash 53 themes that's five three themes to get these 53 themes it's really important for you to find a theme for your pottery so that you're not going to get burnt out you can have multiple styles with your pottery and you can be known for something so again go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash
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53 themes, that's five three themes to get these 53 themes. Thanks guys, I'll see you guys next time.