John Ransmeier Pottery, Weaverville NC

All work is assembled from slab, wheel-thrown, pressed and coil elements. Pieces are then high fired in a reducing atmosphere using biofuel.

Making pots is about evolution. As long as I feel my work is progressing,I don't worry. Not long ago,I tried to maintain control over surfaces and glazes.In reaction to that,I have gravitated toward a looser way of making pieces using glazes that I could't control even if I tried.Perhaps reduction firing, with its own tendency toward variation has nudged me in this direction.I am always looking for ways to allow my work to progress. There is a saying, "At the point of origin, lie the most possibilities. "My goal is to keep enough freedom in my work to allow those possibilities to take form.

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