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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Jingdezhen is such a wonderful place. I have to share it with all my potter friends!!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Most Jingdezhen porcelain factories adopted automation systems in the early 70's. However, many detail works are still relied on skill worker until this day.</span>powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-19351769911926841762013-09-23T02:05:00.000-04:002013-09-23T02:22:43.760-04:00Cone 6 Glaze - Revisit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
After Grace attending 1st Grade and Alex going to middle school, blogging became the last activity that I could reserve my energy to engage. I had abandoned my blog for almost a year. Until last week..........A blog reader posted a question about the Orange Street recipe: </div>
<strong><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">DKat: Could you please tell me if the Orange Street is supposed to add up to 136.5?</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black;">I mindlessly replied:</span><br />
<strong><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Me: Hi DKat, could you tell me what 136.5 is referring to? Are you asking about a particular material?</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black;">Today, another blog reader helped me to point out that:</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;"><strong>Powen, What DKat is referring to is the standard practice of listing base glaze ingredients in percentages that add up to 100%. The coloring agents and other additives such as Bentonite come after...............................</strong></span> </span><br />
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Thanks to DKat and Janine pointed out this issue. <span style="color: red;">Please </span><strong><span style="color: red;">use the recipe as is</span></strong><span style="color: red;"></span>.<br />
In glaze calculation, after an Unity Molecular Formula was converted to Batch Formula, the recipe should total 100%. For Cone 6 glazes, however, this rule does not always apply to. <br />
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Many Cone 6 glazes we use today were converted from cone 9/ 10 glazes, and the easiest way to do so is adding Gerstely Borate or Frit, or replacing a stronger feldspar, ex, Nepheline Syenite or F-4 Feldspar, to the original recipe. This is why the Orange Street does not add up as 100%.<br />
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ORANGE STREET:<br />
Silica 15.2%<br />
Talc 13.8%<br />
Dolomite 8.1%<br />
EPK 4.5%<br />
Gerstly Borate 17.9%<br />
F-4 Feldspar 46.8%<br />
Red Iron Oxide 12%<br />
Bone Ash 12%<br />
Crocus Martis 6.2%<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have learned that most collectors come to this show only for a certain potters' works. Since this is the first time I participate in this show, I hope that my works can attract my own collectors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Based on the traditional standard in Catawba Valley, 20 lbs clay should make at least a 6 gallon jar/ jug. Here are some 8 and 2 gallon lidded vases I prepared for the show. They should look great in transparent green, brown or turquoise glazes. I will post finish pieces after I run glaze testes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The 16th Annual Catawba Valley Pottery & Antique Festival is on Saturday March 23 from 9am - 5pm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">but he isn't aware of himself going to become lunch of the snake</span></span><br />
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<br />powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-61911959476536091242013-01-06T13:24:00.000-05:002013-01-06T13:24:53.794-05:00Looking Forward to the Year of Snake2012 was a very busy yet productive year. Learning traditional southern pottery in Catawba valley has tremendous influence on my works. <br />
This doesn't necessarily mean that I begin to make southern style pottery. Coming from a ceramic engineering background, I used to focus too much on technical aspect of ceramics. After met Kim Ellington and learned about Catawba Valley pottery tradition, I became more humble to the material and to the process. <br />
One of my favorite piece from 2012 productions was made from Catawba Vally natural clay, traditional 7,5,2 Alkaline glaze, and fired in Kim's groundhog kiln. <br />
I am anticipating the transformation of my works in 2013 just like this piece.......<br />
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I was fortunate to have some pieces loaded and fired in Hart's Square groundhog kiln over Catawba Valley. It's my very first hand on wood firing experience and very first time using alkaline glaze. </div>
The shape of my pots that usually works well in gas reduction firing doesn't seem to fit with alkaline glaze. I need to explore new forms that would hopefully amplify the quality of alkaline glaze. <br />
How ironic. Alkaline glaze was dominant type of glaze used by Chinese potters for over centuries, and I, a Chinese potter, after potting for 12 years, finally used alkaline glaze the very first time in Catawba Valley, North Carolina.<br />
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powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-50152117304047920132012-09-22T00:46:00.000-04:002012-09-22T00:55:10.365-04:00Catawba Valley ClayToday, I just tried the clay that Kim Ellington gave me few weeks ago. It is the local clay Kim dug out from a site in Catawba Valley. The clay is a little bit groggy during wedging, but surprisingly smooth to throw. It also has an unique aroma which reminds me of the clay I used to play from my uncle's pottery shop in my hometown, Nantou City, Taiwan. <br />
I now believe that only the mother nature can produce the best clay for potter. If you have read " A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park, you might remember Tree Ear's first job from potter Ming was to dig clay. My clay experience might need to re-start from the beginning: digging clay.<br />
Here are three pots made from Catawba Valley clay. They are going to be fired in a groundhog kiln in November. I will make sure to share pictures of a groundhog, ME, climbing in and out of kiln!!<br />
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powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-31323646694279000812012-09-11T23:49:00.000-04:002012-09-11T23:49:05.596-04:00Koi, Shrimp, and Turtle IIIt's been a busy semester. Beside teaching at UNCG, I am also teaching at Catawba Valley Community College this semester. <br />
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Being Able to work with Kim Ellington at CVCC is worth of driving between Greensboro and Hickory. Kim Ellington is my favorite American folk potter. He just like an encyclopedia of American traditional folk pottery. I am looking forward to this valuable experience at Catawba. <br />
Hopefully by October, I will have some big wood-fired pots with alkaline glaze on them......from Kim's modified ground hog kiln.<br />
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After returned from Taiwan, I am struggling with getting new concepts for my works. Lately, I can only work with some traditional works to refine my skills. I am hoping that this "exercise" will lead me to something new.<br />
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Here are few carved black slip plates with celadone glaze from my latest firing.<br />
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powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-1168455627233790702012-06-11T03:26:00.001-04:002012-06-11T03:26:35.118-04:00Summer in TaiwanThis May, I brought my son, Alex, visit Taiwan. While enjoy delicious food and beautiful scenery, we also made a few trips to some pottery related sites.<br />
The first pottery site we discovered was quite an accident. I took Alex to the park where my father used to take me to. It's very close to my old house.<br />
"Those who have attended my workshops before probably remember about my hometown, Nantou city. It's the only city in Taiwan that is not next to ocean. Instead, it's surrounded by mountains. With its rich natural clay deposit and abundant wood, Nantou was famous for its functional pottery, especially, large water jars."<br />
In Nantou park, I found this small wood-fire kiln. It's based on traditional Nantou "snake kiln" and reduced to 1/8 of its original size. I couldn't find any information about this kiln, but, according to the burn mark on the kiln, I believed that it has been fired few times. It will be a good model for me to build a smaller wood-fire kiln in North Carolina.<br />
I will return to the US in late June. Before then, I will share more photos from this trip!!<br />
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I rarely seen a pottery that can really touch my heart. The last time when it happened, it was in the Art Institute of Chicago Museum. A couple of weeks ago, I gave a wheelthrowing workshop at CVCC Potters Workshop and had an opportunity to visit Kim Ellington's kiln and studio. I was so inspired by his works that I threw some six-gallon planters right after returned to my studio. I have no access to wood-fire kiln so I use some of my cone 6 glazes to "imitate" alkaline glaze effect.<br />
Mr. Ellington agreed to teach me firing his wood-fire kiln. I can't wait to see how this will change my works.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Artists Po-Wen Liu, Joyce Teta and Benita VanWinkle share their responses to “refuge.” Po-Wen creates ceramic vessels that provide an interior space of spiritual refuge, Joyce explores the fabricated safety of story lines in ink and Benita shows us photographic stills indicating the silent refuge of movie theaters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;">Salem</span></st1:placename><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;"> </span><st1:placetype><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;">College</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;"> intern Diana Vasquez and Richard Barco will lead in the creation of a 3D inflatable refuge. Sawtooth students and visitors to the gallery will be able to enter the sculpture and contribute their own ideas of refuge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><st1:place><st1:placename><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sawtooth</span></st1:placename><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><st1:placetype><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">School</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> for Visual Art </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;">is the premier community visual art school in the Piedmont Triad and provides art education for all ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more information about the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;">Sawtooth</span></st1:placename><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;"> </span><st1:placetype><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;">School</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma;"> for Visual Art, visit <a href="http://www.sawtooth.org/">sawtooth.org</a> or call 336.723-7395.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Note: photos available upon request</i></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 11pt;"># # #</span></div>powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-39993676965100340022011-07-20T01:16:00.001-04:002011-07-20T15:35:38.421-04:00New Works<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Here are some new works that just came out of cone 10 reduction firing over the weekend. I found some interesting glaze combinations: Copper Red (inside) works well with most dark glazes (on outside).<br />
At the same time, I also found that never use Amber celadon (inside) and Shino (on outside) on the same piece. Unfortunately, 1/5 of kiln load were in this glaze combination and they went straight to dumpster.<br />
I am so used to with monochrome ceramics. Finding good glaze combination on one piece is quite challenging. I probabily shouldm't always trust my intuition.<br />
powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-32733720495742355682011-06-13T01:14:00.000-04:002011-06-13T01:14:59.104-04:00Plates / 志野, 黑釉小盤<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Recently, I try to trim and cut round wheelthrown plates to create flower-like design. A lots of process, but I will still keep it simple. Here are some images of my new plates.</span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-65190329173341594872011-06-09T00:26:00.000-04:002011-06-09T00:26:07.304-04:00Teaching<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Just would like to show off some students' works from my beginning wheel-throwing class at UNC-Greensboro. What a rewarding teaching experience!!<br />
These young kids are full of energy and creativity. I have tried very hard to equip them with the skills and knowledge that will enable them to transform their creative concept into reality.<br />
For this class, I did encourage them to copy well-made ceramic works; traditional or contemporary. It was the way Chinese artist learned from their master for centuries, and this was the way I examined how well they have learned from this class. <br />
I also included two interesting works from my previous hand-building class: A Tang dynasty lady playing Guitar Hero and a Japanese Haniwa working on his lap top.<br />
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</tbody></table>powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-12598137427101286512011-04-13T23:57:00.003-04:002011-06-13T01:16:54.924-04:00Cone 10 Reduction/ 10 號錐還原燒After doing some adjustments inside of the gas kiln I fired at UNCG, I finally gained some control of cone 10 reduction firing. Each firing made me become more humble. I used to believe that I knew everything about pottery. This kiln, however, made me relearn many things.<br />
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</tbody></table>powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-47973206094356027802011-03-23T00:46:00.007-04:002011-06-13T01:18:00.288-04:00Cone 6 Glazes / 6號錐氧化燒On my previous post, I mentioned that two glazes on my tea pot – Orange Street and Creamy Rust are in <u>Mastering Cone 6 Glazes</u>. I think I was wrong. A blog reader couldn’t find the recipes from that book. <br />
Here are the two glaze recipes I would like to share. <br />
Just a friendly reminder!! Cone 6 glazes react to <span style="color: red;"><strong>work-heat ratio</strong></span> slightly different from the cone 10 glazes. A different firing program could change how the glaze turned out from firing. Always run some tests on smaller pieces before you use them on your “real” works.<br />
I fired my works in Cone Art kiln (have I ever mentioned that Cone Art is my favorite kiln since I was working for the porcelain company in Taiwan : ) with fast glaze program and hold at cone 6 for 20 minutes. <br />
I got most of cone 6 glazes from Sawtooth School for the Visual Art, Winston-Salem, NC, where I am teaching an intermediate/ advance wheel-throwing class.<br />
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ORANGE STREET:<br />
Silica 15.2%<br />
Talc 13.8%<br />
Dolomite 8.1%<br />
EPK 4.5%<br />
Gerstly Borate 17.9%<br />
F-4 Feldspar 46.8%<br />
Red Iron Oxide 12%<br />
Bone Ash 12%<br />
Crocus Martis 6.2%<br />
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CREAMY RUST:<br />
Custer 26.6%<br />
Strontium Carbonate 3.3%<br />
Frit 3134 30.6%<br />
Wollastonite 10.6%<br />
Talc 2.3%<br />
EPK 8.4%<br />
Flint 18.2%<br />
Red Iron Oxide 6%<br />
Tin Oxide 5%<br />
Zircopax 8%<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">my glaze logs recorded how I applied and fired each glaze</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">glazed the whole piece in Orange Street and then dipped around 1/3 of the piece in Creamy Rust </span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table>powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-45974540635111805192011-03-07T02:00:00.005-05:002011-03-07T08:39:17.343-05:0024th NC Pottery Conference<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Over the weekend, I attended the 24th NC Pottery Conference and worked with 6 Chinese students from ECU to help out with translation. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was a wonderful conference that provided an opportunity to American potters to get a close look of Jingdezhan porcelain making process.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There were 5 demonstrations going simultaneously; Wheel throwing, Trimming, Under glaze decoration, Over glaze decoration, and Slab-building. Each master has been working in his/ her professional field more than 10 years. They were like treasure boxes for the attendances to explore.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If you missed this conference, you can visit Odyssey Clay Center and Penland this Wednesday (slide presentation only) and ECU Speight Auditorium on March 14 and 15 (demo and penal discussion.)</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">5 presenters from left to right (in front of monitors): Master Feng, Shangjin (overglaze painter), Prof. Feng, Weina (underglaze painter), Master Dai, Guanyu (trimmer), Master Zhan, Shaolin (thrower), and Master Xie, Zhenghua (slab building)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_suw8Ym4pkLfZkOSbQC7nT-059ac5yr9mErCdhPx7LDHcVrCQboMhuijrxvwRFtCgXREToSIL2Rakmb-nIXITufzYioboG7levihzfrm89huz0Y7LAu7ARtDXQY2G0cLuUSGDC_DzRo0/s1600/24+nc+potter+conference+012.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="301" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_suw8Ym4pkLfZkOSbQC7nT-059ac5yr9mErCdhPx7LDHcVrCQboMhuijrxvwRFtCgXREToSIL2Rakmb-nIXITufzYioboG7levihzfrm89huz0Y7LAu7ARtDXQY2G0cLuUSGDC_DzRo0/s400/24+nc+potter+conference+012.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">7 hours of works (more pieces on floor). Some pieces were designed by audiences with specific dimensions</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div>powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-27480722643595505232011-02-27T02:03:00.009-05:002011-02-27T13:38:13.604-05:00Seven things about me............<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ai55aMJveFk/TWnrD99mlvI/AAAAAAAAAWo/GK0SpBBPXFI/s1600/stylish_blogger_award.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" l6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ai55aMJveFk/TWnrD99mlvI/AAAAAAAAAWo/GK0SpBBPXFI/s1600/stylish_blogger_award.jpg" /></a></div>My wife often tells friends not to ask me about how she and I met. She says I would make the romantic story become a documentary. However, since I accepted Meredith’s “award”, I would like to tell 7 things that you may not know about me.........<br />
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My father was born in Henan province, China, which is the birthplace of Chinese civilization. My father followed ROC government to Taiwan in 1949 after ROC army was defeated by Communist army. <br />
My mother side of families migrated to Taiwan from southern China during the early 19th century. After I learn how to tell romantic story, I will let you know how they met (It’s really romantic.)<br />
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I have a very lay back personality. It’s probably due to my birthday, I think. I was born on March 6 and I was actually one week overdue. <br />
On March 6, according to Chinese calendar (the day when the Sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 345°), the first thunderstorm of the year will wake up all the hibernated insects/ animals. I was probably woke up by the thunder and decided to come to see the world.<br />
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When I was a baby, my family lived in a military housing complex near an air force base. Linda’s husband, Gary, used to station there. <br />
I used to “sleep like a baby” till one day, my grandmother visited. She said to my mom “Po-Wen is a such wonderful baby, even fighter jets passing by with such loud noise, he can still sleep so well.” Guess what? Since that day, according to my mom, I began to cry badly whenever fighter jets flied by my house. I believed it’s a lesson many parents had learned!?<br />
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Military housing complex was a mainlander neighborhood in Taiwan. Therefore, I could only understand Mandarin when I was little. When my family moved to a Taiwanese neighborhood, some neighbor kids would trick me to get my toys by confusing me with Taiwanese. After few weeks, I gradually became fluent in Taiwanese, and began to trick them to get my toys back. Now I can easily switch back and forth between two dialects. <br />
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After graduated from college in Taiwan, I decided to take a test and became a reserve officer served in Chinese Marine Corps (Taiwan).<br />
I served in a LVT unit. Most of my military lives spent either in the ocean or on the beach. Sometime when I close my eyes at night, I can still " hear" the ocean in my ears. I missed that 5K run in the morning and 200+ push ups at night kind of life. Now, I can even hardly finish 50 push ups.<br />
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My wife is a Korean. At home, we speak 3 different languages. My kids speak to my wife in Korean, to me, in “some Mandarin” and mostly in English. Between my wife and I, in English. <br />
My wife and I did occasionally communicate in Taiwanese though. Most Korean pronunciations are very close to Taiwanese. When we couldn’t express a certain word in English, we would try to say it in Taiwanese or Korean. 99% of the time, we could figure out the words that we tried to say.<br />
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I love to cook. One of my professors used to say that most good potters are also good cooks. I don’t know if I am qualified to be a good potter, but I am sure I am a good cook. My kids can prove it!! <br />
When I was little, I loved to talk to my mom in kitchen when she was cooking . I think I unconsciously learned how to cook during the conversations. Some time I would cook my mom's dishes to ease my homesick.<br />
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Well, I don’t know much about other blogger, so I think I am not going to pass this down to next 15 people. However, if any of you would like to share what we don’t know about you beside your pottery, please feel free to do so.powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-12291934985341389142011-01-27T20:55:00.003-05:002011-01-27T21:00:46.997-05:00Tea Time II<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here are few more tea pots that just came out of kiln yesterday. <br />
After switching from Cone 10 reduction to cone 6 oxidation firing, I came to realize that cone 6 oxidation firing is a whole new realm in the ceramic world to explore. I feel it's foolish to reproduce cone 10 glaze quality in cone 6 glazes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Currently I just modify found cone 6 glaze recipes; mostly added more flux or overlap two glazes to make them slightly “runny”. <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">A clean 45 degree cut on the foot rim can prevent the glaze from running to kiln shelf.</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> creamy rust over orange street (from Mastering cone 6 glaze)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTAliI0OIwJumXFaP6fv9WgHlgFybsipsr8KMfLmCwCy_lWALb_b-NtKbRp_cS7xh7-VqFZAGZQKX7YU9YNZrfrHBC4mvEH72ebGsWoAA0Ayl_i-vrQL6fPttF_yJY7NOVE5MNdWFK3zU/s1600/teapot009a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="272" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTAliI0OIwJumXFaP6fv9WgHlgFybsipsr8KMfLmCwCy_lWALb_b-NtKbRp_cS7xh7-VqFZAGZQKX7YU9YNZrfrHBC4mvEH72ebGsWoAA0Ayl_i-vrQL6fPttF_yJY7NOVE5MNdWFK3zU/s400/teapot009a.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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Here are some tea pots I made during those "snow days". I will use some of them to run glaze-blending tests and post later.<br />
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Alex has also working very hard to accomplish many things he loves to do: Tae Kwan Do, Piano, Ski, and study (with me holding a bamboo stick behind him :) I have learned how to be a father after became a father.<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/NaturalGreenPottery?ref=badge"><img src="http://www.etsy.com/images/community/resources/badges/findme.jpg" /></a>powen liu 劉博文http://www.blogger.com/profile/11192852694642031275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520345364161295868.post-76770794842690490342010-12-18T00:57:00.004-05:002011-01-12T01:54:07.113-05:00Textured Vases<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Recently I visited a friend and I didn’t recognize a piece <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">he purchased from me </span>about 3 years ago. The style and glaze on that piece seemed so remote to me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It seems hard for me to make the same type of work for too long. I think that’s why I love ceramics so much; the potential within clay is endless.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here are few pieces I am working on lately - textures.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My wife and I, along with kids, went to visit our families in Korea and Taiwan. We visited many historical sites and watched traditional performances. It's great for kids to immerse themselves in different cultures. </span><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">an annex hall of Suwan Palace (水源華城), Suwan, Korea</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDxLkcbS49Kgy9g9qQin6aHNf1z23V0nzaq8x3bb-EbmCcrZxO-Uccs5nyt20SygNh-J7QA52eWEGXpUjlbSRV0WTl1Y2PiLSNpbBC9HObss9ljQk2ezLXdZcCtmugopMfoq7DE7CF-CA/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="265" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDxLkcbS49Kgy9g9qQin6aHNf1z23V0nzaq8x3bb-EbmCcrZxO-Uccs5nyt20SygNh-J7QA52eWEGXpUjlbSRV0WTl1Y2PiLSNpbBC9HObss9ljQk2ezLXdZcCtmugopMfoq7DE7CF-CA/s400/2.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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