Nerikomi Artist | Victoria Rickson | Episode 1063
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Victoria Rickson is a Canadian ceramic artist based in San Francisco, specializing in nerikomi. With a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design, Victoria transitioned to pottery post graduation, mastering the technique of colored clay as a member of community studios. Victoria's work balances precision with spontaneity, creating one-of-a-kind, color driven pieces.
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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 | Welcome to episode number 1063 of The Potterscast. |
| 0:20.8 | Oh, I've got such sad news because such sad news last night |
| 0:26.4 | i was making the snack in my favorite bowl the bowl that i made some i don't know 10 years ago |
| 0:33.5 | that i was so i've been so proud of this bowl it's like it's my go-to bowl at nighttime. And I was, |
| 0:39.4 | and it was in the dishwasher and I pulled it out. It said, I want to use it tonight for my snack. And so |
| 0:45.3 | I was washing it. My hand slipped. And it hit the side of the sink and it took a big old chip out |
| 0:51.8 | of it. Ah, so sad. So sad. You can only imagine the disappointment, right? |
| 0:59.2 | When you break one of your favorite pots? Yeah, it happened to me. But good night. That's not as bad as |
| 1:06.3 | that four-year-old kid in Israel. He walks, he walks into a museum and there's a 3,500-year-old pot |
| 1:16.2 | right there for the whole world to be able to walk up to and check out. And this little kid |
| 1:23.2 | walks up and breaks it, fully breaks it. |
| 1:31.3 | And you can imagine being the parent of that child. |
| 1:35.4 | And how humiliating would that be? |
| 1:37.3 | It's like, oh, my word, my... Anyhow, the parents, the museum was amazing. |
| 1:43.2 | The museum, like, understands kids can be precocious, kids can do things, |
| 1:47.8 | and they forgave him, and they invited him back when the pot gets restored. And it's like, |
| 1:55.1 | that happened at, like, end of August, you know, just a little bit ago. And they, and what the, the curators did is they just |
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