Life Took a Turn and He Turned to Pottery | Hector Kriete | Episode 607
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Hector Kriete's life and art has been a path of breaking boundaries that are formed by rules and expectations. As a Latino immigrant from Colombia, Hector grew up with the mindset that financial stability was the primary goal in life. But on the inside, Hector always had a strong desire to create art and a need to be surrounded by nature. Hector spent his teenage years in Southern California trying to assimilate and suppress his true self. When Hector started accepting who he was and rediscovering himself through his roots, Hector's soul was nourished and his creativity was sparked. Hector started doing ceramics when he was a child in Colombia. When he moved to the States, Hector focused on his drawing skills, but soon felt constrained by the overwhelming amount of rules imposed by one of his high school teachers. Hector rediscovered ceramics through a teacher who allowed him to experiment and create without strict direction. This freed Hector to discover a world of unlimited possibilities. Another inspirational teacher in college taught Hector the value of making mistakes and not being afraid to take risks. Hector has learned that the best things can often come from not having expectations and allowing a co-creative process with the medium.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | 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. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.1 | Boom. |
| 0:15.2 | And just like that, episode number 607 is now underway. |
| 0:20.5 | Welcome to the Potter's cast. I can't believe we are now in March. March is going on right now and we are experiencing it. Well, you know, if you're listening to this show, you know, a couple months down the road, maybe two years down the road. You know, it may not be March for you then, |
| 0:38.9 | but anyhow, it is the time of this release. And I am really excited because March is the month |
| 0:45.2 | for Enceca. And Enceca is coming up just around the corner. It is like three weeks away, |
| 0:52.0 | something like that. It's going on the 25th through the 27th. No, sorry, |
| 0:56.8 | say it. Sorry about that. The, yeah, the 26th to the 28th. That's what I meant to say. And you can get |
| 1:02.1 | all the details about it over on the N-SICA, which is N-C-E-C-A website. |
| 1:16.3 | And you can get all the info to be able to find out if you can be able to make it because I think it's a trip worth going to because, yeah, because it's a lot of fun. |
| 1:22.8 | That's right. |
| 1:23.4 | And we're doing something very cool. |
| 1:25.1 | I got a couple things that are going to be happening there. |
| 1:27.0 | Number one, one of our previous guests is speaking for N-Sika. |
| 1:34.1 | He's going to be talking about copyright law, Tom Edwards, |
| 1:36.8 | and I'm going to be introducing him, and I'm totally stoked about that. |
| 1:40.2 | The other thing that's happening is that we are going to be doing, |
| 1:42.8 | that's going to be happening on Thursday morning at 11, I think, something like that. The other thing that's happening is that we are going to be doing, that's going to be happening on Thursday morning at 11, I think, something like that. |
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