When I first started this pot, I was expecting something like this:
Although it's not exactly like this.. my plan for this pot was for it to have a wide squished circular base, with a angled ( x smooth) opening that extends out further than it does in this picture. It was like one of those African ethnic pot thingies, the ones you would see in museums with white, brown and red glaze on it with geometric shapes all around it. The plan seemed pretty simple at first, it's just a small pot and a cylinder going around the top right? Well.. no. The pot part was easy and took only half a class-time to make it perfect. The cylinder however.. would just not stan up. It would wobble, and then I would pinch it., which would thin that part out and I would add clay, and then it would collapse. I struggled with making the cylinder for 2 classes and I gave up.
Although I had given up making this pot all together, I thought I could still do something with my pot so I decided to finish one of the requirements, the piercing and the exterior texture. I started by printing the stamp paper lightly and carved random lines on the outside the pot. The piercing pot came out really really weird because I didn't plan to do this at all, but oh well. I guess it's okay to have one pot that you fail. I learned that you have to plan carefully before doing anything that involves carving. You can't un-carve. I don't really know where I am going to go with this pot. It has it's own beauty I guess... ;P