Pottery

I've been itching to do some pottery. It's not always very easy to find specific things like pottery classes here as using the Internet is completely useless and the phone is a ridiculous option. Usually you need to rely on Korean friends or acquaintances for such purposes. So I turned to my bosses. I was quite excited when my VP Eric wound up hooking me up with a workshop with a famous Busan ceramic artist this past weekend.

As with Canadian potters I have visited this Korean artist has set up shop on the outskirts of Busan in a very interesting house surrounded by beautiful countryside. Eric drove J and me out to Gijang and acted as translator for us all afternoon. It was yet another example of the extreme generosity of Korean people towards us foreigners. We had a spiffy afternoon making a coil pot, having a try at the wheel and laughing with out fellow potters. (Laughing works well when nobody knows what each other is saying).