Jingdezhen
Last night of nine weeks in China. Work is in transit, met many new and interesting people, got to hang out with established friends around China. I felt completely satisfied by all I accomplished and ready to go home where I begin to contemplate if I should return next summer. In some ways I thought this might be a China swan song summer as most of my work will now be with me. I still want to have some large pieces make it through the firings and some new ideas of how to use the amazing porcelain brewing. I know the year I decide to stay home or travel somewhere else will feel strange and I will miss my China summer very much. Time will tell.
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
