Handing a Fishing Pole Instead of A Fish | Sondra Elder | Episode 957
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As a self-taught artist, Sondra was not able to truly devote time to her creative journey until after retiring from her life in the business world. Her journey has taken her to study with Spanish, Austrailian, English, and American ceramic artists to develop her skills. With her pottery, her chosen medium is porcelain because its strength and delicacy learn to live in harmony. It is her perfect canvas to display the beautiful zinc-silicate crystals that can only be created through normally destructive fire. These naturally occurring phenomena inspire her never-ending desire to artistically harness their capability on the backdrop of her forms - which equally exude both capability and femininity.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:01.9 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.3 | Hey, hey, hey, welcome to episode number 957 of the Potter's cast. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:23.8 | We've got a really cool potter coming on the show. |
| 0:26.5 | I've been really looking forward to bringing Sandra Elder to you because she is, one, an amazing potter. |
| 0:33.6 | And two, she's got a great story to tell. |
| 0:37.4 | I love this conversation because we talk about sharing the passion for, you know, for |
| 0:44.5 | Clay, but also that helps us to understand the importance of sharing the knowledge and |
| 0:51.1 | pushing that into the next generation or into the next group of people that |
| 0:56.1 | would be a receiver of that knowledge. |
| 0:59.3 | So it's really amazing stuff. |
| 1:02.2 | So now, before I get to it, I have some really good news. |
| 1:05.8 | I find it to be exceptionally good news. |
| 1:08.4 | As some of you know, probably a lot of you know, if you listen to this show |
| 1:11.7 | forever, then you would know that I'm a cancer survivor. And I was basically given like, |
| 1:19.0 | you know, 18 months to live. And, and here I am still around. Anyhow, the, I just just very recently my annual checkup to make sure and to |
| 1:33.9 | confirm that I'm still in good shape. And sure enough, no more evidence of cancer and or I should |
| 1:40.7 | say still no evidence of cancer. And so I'm so stoked about that. |
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