It's Like Improv | Sasha Barrett | Episode 717
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Using earthenware clay, Sasha Barrett makes functional and decorative pots. The surfaces of Sasha's forms are painted using heavy, colorful brushstrokes to create a feeling of movement and mood. Sasha throws his pots on a slow turning kick-wheel. Sasha finds inspiration from his home country of Ukraine.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potterscast, a podcast home for Potters Everywhere. It's a community of Potters |
| 0:06.8 | dedicated to grow their business. We're picking up where the art degree ends. I'm your host, |
| 0:12.3 | Paul Blaze. We just arrived in episode number 717 of the Potter's cast, and I just want to say a great big welcome to the show. |
| 0:24.0 | So happy we are hanging out together today. |
| 0:28.2 | We've got a very, very cool potter coming on this show. |
| 0:33.0 | His name is Sasha Barrett. |
| 0:34.8 | And what I like about Sasha is, one, his work. His work is |
| 0:41.3 | dependents. If you want to look at his work, I've got it for here on the show notes page. So you |
| 0:44.7 | can go there, you know, check it out if you'd like to, you know, right now at the beginning |
| 0:48.3 | of the show, because we talk about it a little bit in the show. But what I love about |
| 0:53.5 | Sasha is that his approach to getting his ceramics in the world |
| 1:01.7 | is kind of diversified. And one of the things that I like is, in fact, I named today's episode |
| 1:10.0 | off of one thing that he said. He said, it's like improv. He starts telling me the story about how he gets the word out there. And eventually he goes, you know, it's kind of like improv. We just do what it takes to get to get the job done. And I just kind of love that simple approach. |
| 1:27.9 | And I feel like as an entrepreneur, |
| 1:30.5 | trying to move in the world, |
| 1:34.7 | it's that it's not always exactly scripted. |
| 1:38.9 | You can't get a script from the director and say, |
| 1:42.2 | okay, this is how you're going to do it. There's times |
| 1:45.8 | when you've got to throw the sheet aside and just do what it takes to make it all work. And |
| 1:53.1 | sometimes it's just like improv. And it means you've got to be fast in your feet. You've got to be |
| 1:58.8 | able to interact with those things that are coming towards you. |
| 2:01.8 | And I just kind of love that idea that Sasha brought to the table today. |
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