Turning Wild Rocks to Glaze | Matt Fiske | Episode 527
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Matt Fiske's work explores the intersection of material, science, and ceramic firing process. Experimentation is an important aspect of Matt's studio practice, and focuses on manipulating common materials using uncommon firing conditions. Matt is inspired by the natural phenomena that occur in mineralogy and geology. In Matt's mind's eye, glaciers give way to icy celadon glazes, volcanoes ooze magma as glazes cascade down curves and roll off edges, crystals grow when conditions are conducive. Daily life, too, plays an important role in what Matt makes and why. The needs of the kitchen are for Matt, like many potters, a useful starting point for conceiving specific forms. Matt also draws from historical Asian ceramics as well as my experiences living in China and Korea. In the end, Matt strives to synthesize complex glazes and surfaces with objects that are as useful as they are beautiful.
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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. |
| 0:13.9 | Hey, I'm so excited because we are in episode number 527. |
| 0:20.8 | And that has me stoked because we got a great episode coming up for you. |
| 0:28.5 | Before we get any further, I wanted to just say thank you for how responsive you all are. |
| 0:34.2 | I mentioned a new podcast that was available called The Potter's Roundtable, put out by |
| 0:40.1 | Washington Street Studios. And the response is really cool. I got word back that there was a bunch of |
| 0:46.0 | new downloads for the show, and I'm really stoked about that. Now, I'm bringing this up because |
| 0:51.9 | we need shows like this. Every time there's a new podcast out |
| 0:56.6 | there about ceramics or pottery somehow, I want to sing the praises and get them to stay around |
| 1:03.0 | for a while because we need this info. But it was really cool about the episode that I said, |
| 1:09.8 | well, actually not the episode. I'm binging on it right now. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm listening to all of them just like back to back. But the first one that I listened to |
| 1:16.3 | was called Pots, Rocks, and Minerals. That's subtitled is Geology for Potters. But here's the |
| 1:24.1 | gig. I so enjoyed that episode because he talked about how rocks can be utilized and used in your ceramic, both in your |
| 1:35.4 | glazes. And it was really cool to hear that. Now, I'm bringing that up because the whole time I was listening to that, I was thinking about today's episode. |
| 1:46.2 | Because today we've got Matt Fisk coming on the show. And I had interviewed Matt at Enseca. |
| 1:54.3 | And if you've never been to Enseca, I'll just kind of give you an idea of what it's like. |
| 1:58.6 | There's thousands and thousands of potters that show up |
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