To Do A Demo | Ana Shioshita | Episode 1125
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Ana Shioshita is a potter working in Vancouver Canada. Ana was lucky enough to grow up in Boulder Colorado around a lot of clay from a young age. Ana has spent the last decade designing for film, and has only recently started focusing on pottery full time. Ana is interested in creating work that conveys a sense of movement with the static medium of clay.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.0 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.0 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to episode number 1,125 of the potters cast. Wow. I just spent the afternoon sanding pots for my wife. |
| 0:31.8 | She's got the ceramic showcase coming up this weekend. And I got to be the person who got to handle every one of those |
| 0:39.7 | pots before they go on display. And I was, wow, just amazed. I had so much fun. There was one pot |
| 0:48.6 | in particular, because, you know, I see her making this, her work. And then I get to see it all when I do the sanding. |
| 0:56.4 | And so when I was sanding this one mug, it's got this really cool scene on it. |
| 1:02.5 | You're like, well, I should say it's like a mountain club. |
| 1:05.5 | It's our cup. |
| 1:06.2 | It's got, it's got trees on both sides. |
| 1:09.6 | And as I'm spinning it to sand it, all of a sudden there's this little small dog figure on it. |
| 1:16.6 | It is so adorable. |
| 1:18.8 | I just fell in love with this cup. |
| 1:21.3 | Well, I just fell in love with all of her work. |
| 1:23.0 | It's just so good. |
| 1:24.3 | So good. |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, I was using my studio sander from Forrest Middleton, one of the best tools |
| 1:30.3 | in the world. I love it. Yeah, it's just such a great tool. You can get through pots and make |
| 1:36.9 | them nice and clean and smooth. Like, I really don't like when I pick up a pot and the bottom is |
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