the piglet's progress
Two years ago, I had an assignment to build a piggy bank for a handbuilding ceramics class. I was enamoured of the idea of a Minature Japanese Pot Bellied Samurai Piggy Bank and I built one. At the greenware critique, I thought I had been told to rebuild the head and arms. I returned to my studio, decapitated my pig and fought with several attempts at improving the head and arms. The all left much to be desired. Eventually, the pig dried out as I lost consecutive gumption battles to finish it. Finally, with graduation looming around the corner and only a pig blocking my hasty departure, I finally convinced myself to get it done. These photographs were my proof that it had been built in the event of a kiln disaster.