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The Next Stupid Ceramics Project I have to do involves building some sort of form out of a bunch of cookie-cutter images that I have fashioned from clay. These smaller forms, which will act as building blocks, are to be based on a doodle. Yes, a doodle. As in, I look at an old page of doodles I've drawn, pick out one that looks interesting, and make a bunch of 3-dimensional versions of it in clay. Then I take these pieces and build something ouf of them.

This just gets stupider and stupider. We haven't even learned how to glaze or use the wheel yet, and the semester is more than halfway over.

So, anyway. What I usually doodle are profiles. So I ingeniously took an old cookie cutter (this was my own idea, and I am very smart because it made cutting the shapes out way easier than tracing around a piece of cardboard) and bent it into the shape of a human face, side-view. Then I rolled out the clay on the machine that makes me feel like Steamboat Willie (it's a press and it has a big wheel you turn, toot-toot!) and then I cut out about 20 of them, about 1/4" thick. The finished products look pretty much like this. So now I have 20 of these clay things and I have to make something out of them. God knows what.

This is even stupider than the Tattoo Trophy, that, did I tell you, ended up being a foot with a big maple leaf growing out of the top? It's supposed to be comical, but it's really just the most ridiculous thing you ever saw. One day archaeologists will dig this thing up and think that we were all Canadian foot-worshipers.

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