Demonstrating Not Elevating the Value of Clay | King Houndekpinkou | Episode 677
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Born in Montreuil (France), in 1987, King Houndekpinkou is a Franco-Beninese ceramist based in Paris. As the face of a rising generation of artists from the African diaspora exploring global possibilities, King works in France, Japan and Benin, while exhibiting his work internationally.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. A podcast home for potters everywhere. It's a community of |
| 0:06.4 | potters dedicated to grow their business. We're picking up where the art degree ends. I'm your host, |
| 0:12.2 | Paul Blaze. And welcome to episode number 677 of the Potter's cast. We get to go overseas today to France to hang out with someone. |
| 0:23.8 | In fact, we're going to Paris to be able to hang out today. |
| 0:27.2 | And we've got a great Potter coming on the show that I want to talk about here in just a moment. |
| 0:32.0 | But first, I wanted to let you know we've got another Potter's class coming up. |
| 0:36.5 | It's being done with John Schmidt, who is, if you know him on YouTube, you would know him |
| 0:44.6 | as John the Potter. |
| 0:46.4 | And John Schmidt just wrote a book, which if you have, if you, if you listen to last week's |
| 0:52.7 | episode, you would have heard John's episode on last Tuesday |
| 0:56.3 | where he talked about the process of writing the book and so on and so forth. It's called |
| 1:01.1 | Practical Pottery. It's a great book. But also, the thing about John is that is absolutely |
| 1:07.0 | amazing is that when he does his ceramics, he uses all commercial glazes. |
| 1:12.8 | But when he does those commercial glazes, they look like they are his glazes. |
| 1:19.2 | They are his own special set of glazes, even though anybody can get a hold of them. |
| 1:25.2 | And I love that approach to using commercial glazes where they've been so specialized |
| 1:32.0 | in the way that he applies them and makes them his own that it's hard to tell the difference. |
| 1:37.8 | The guy is amazing with that. |
| 1:39.8 | And what we're going to talk about or what he's going to teach us in this class is he's going to |
| 1:44.3 | teach us about how how to make commercial glazes your own. And I love that idea. So that's |
| 1:51.3 | coming up on the 21st of November. And that's just around the corner. Like, good night. If you're |
| 1:57.9 | listening this on the day that this is being released, which would the third then you know the third of november then you will know that that is just like |
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