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The Day Before The Day, Marlaina Lutz
The Day Before The Day, Marlaina Lutz
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
The reason any particular moment has the potential to change the course of your life is because of the accumulation of meaningful moments that happened in between. The in between is where care happens. It’s where acts of kindness are done without witnesses and where vulnerability is met with an unconditional reception. It’s where trust is built and where our darkest and brightest parts become exposed. Can you remember what you did the day before you decided someone was your best friend? Or what you did the day before you spoke to a parent for the last time? What about …
Tea Time With The Devil, Hamish Jackson
Tea Time With The Devil, Hamish Jackson
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Tea time with the Devil
Tea Time with the Devil began with the hypothesis that I could create a diverse palette of glazes from one local material. I chose to base my experiments on a granite from Devil’s Playground in western Utah. I collected its rocks, hauled them back to USU and crushed them into powder. Each glaze contains at least 50% of the Devil’s granite. This palette resulted from much trial and error — mostly error. Between 2020 and 2023, I ran thousands of glaze tests to formulate and hone these surfaces.
Why this place and material?
The wild …