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It looks like a good pot, but it's not!

I've been pondering "it looks like a good pot, but it's not!" since I listened to The Potters Podcast featuring my buddy the Georgia Cowboy George McCauley (https://thepotterscast.com/758.) Give it a listen- some very good thoughts. In the podcast George being one of Ron Meyers very first students in South Carolina had a visit by Ron's former teacher Franz Wildenheim. Ron had the students put their pots out for a crit. Frans walked in looked at the pots and said "they look like good pots, but they're not. At first you think -what arrogance, whadda pompus prick, how unprofessional. I don't see it that way. Here was a man that had made and looked at thousands of pots from very old, to student pots, to pots by contemporaries. He had virtually spent a lifetime making, looking at and talking about what makes good pots. I will use one of my experiences as an example. Linda Christianson came to Ontario to help build a two chamber kiln at our studio. At nigh

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