The Muse | Ben Wadler | Episode 988
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Ben Wadler is a sculptor making pottery under the name Special Vessels. Borrowing forms freely from found and imagined architecture, comic books, video games, psychedelia, erotica, calligraphy, and cake decoration — Ben's pieces evoke a faux history that feels both sacred and silly. Reverent and irreverent. Ben likes to imagine the work serving as the first point of contact with an alien race, and how it would look in the vacuum of space. Until then, Ben listens for distant radio signals on WFMU, emanating from his home planet of New Jersey. Ben studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London, at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Ben is currently based in Vienna and Tel Aviv.
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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. |
| 0:08.7 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello and welcome to episode number 988 of the Potter's cast. |
| 0:21.6 | Now, I know that not everybody who listens to the podcast are celebrators of Christmas. |
| 0:29.4 | You know, we've got many holidays around the world that happened at this time. |
| 0:33.8 | And I want to wish you a happy, fill in the blank, whatever it is that you happen to be celebrating, |
| 0:41.2 | I wish the very merriest and bestest unto thee for that celebration. |
| 0:47.7 | And I hope that it's everything that you dream it to be. |
| 0:50.4 | Because we are just the weekend before Christmas here in the United States and I'm sure |
| 0:56.1 | for a lot of people around the world too. And so for those you that do celebrate Christmas, |
| 1:00.7 | whether it's religiously or whether it's just culturally, it can be a really special time |
| 1:06.6 | a year for you. So yeah, it's around the corner. It's around the corner. Well, we've got an amazing |
| 1:15.5 | guest coming on the show. His name is Ben Wadler, and we had a great conversation. Well, he has |
| 1:23.8 | beautiful work. That's the first thing that I want you to know is he's got beautiful work, |
| 1:27.8 | but he's also a bit of a of a intercontinental kind of guy. He's been, he's lived in different |
| 1:34.8 | parts of the, but on different parts of the planet. And he's also kind of a deep dude. And so we talk |
| 1:42.2 | about the muse. And so that's what we get to look forward to today. |
| 1:47.2 | So let's jump into this conversation I had with Ben Waddler right after this word |
| 1:51.3 | from our sponsor. |
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