Small Wonders Market

Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day in Shanghai, and I had the chance to offer my pottery at the Small Wonders Market. This one is a small market that takes place every Saturday at 222 Xiangyang Nan rd and it has just started. So people actually walk down the street and stop by out of curiosity. The flow was kind of slow, but many people did approach my table and appreciated my work. By the end of the day I sold several pieces. It was interesting to see what people liked and commented.

It feels fulfilling when people buy your products. Its not only about the money you make: the first reason I actually do pottery is to be used. I look for this mixture of beauty and utility in the objects I make. And when people appreciate my products and purchase them to use them,  I like to think that they can find small pleasures using the pieces I carefully crafted.

This gentleman was the first person to buy my work 

Some recent work

I took some photos of the work I have been doing recently. I am kind of lazy when it comes to keeping record of my production. I enjoy the process of doing the pots, this is what really keeps me attached to the idea of being a potter, but other parts of it, like taking photos, marketing my stuff, selling... that is not where I find most of the fun. Anyway I do those things with pleasure.

When I do a pot I try it to express certain concepts that has an important value to me. I want my work to be humble, organic, with movement (I guess you could say "alive", but using this word doesn't seem too humble to me), and after all, I want my pots to have the look of holding a certain history, a certain story they tell.

To achieve these goals, I try not to force too much the materials I use, giving room to the random in the process of making a piece, whether is throwing, hand building, or glazing and decorating.

And I tend to do pieces that people can use in their regular live. That is way I don't go too wild. I try to find a right spot in between a soulless piece and a unuseful one.