What Would Ben Doon Do?

I'm back into the swing of studio production and the thought it starting to stir about where I will keep all the things that I'll be producing. See I'm a maker, last year I was very lucky that a studio space was provided for me even though I didn't have any studio classes. Trouble was that I always felt that it was inappropriate for me to make as much as I wanted. So its been one week since my now studio heavy classes started and I've already used more than 200lbs of clay and mixed ten new glaze tests. 

See the thing is that I'm Canadian educated and English trained, which makes me a freight train in the studio, the uncomfortable part for me is telling the world what I'm up to and how I do it. See it stops me from being in the Flow of my making, not denying the quality of how important it is to slow down, have a cuppa tea and some biscuits and wright a little whats on about the work. 

This blog is a required weekly assignment for one of my Thesis Classes. I'm required to include a minimum of: 

3- Images of whats going on (work, recipes, a firing schedule, stuff), 

Written Content about my goings on and whats going through my noodle of a brain

as well as 1 Link to something related to thats going on.  

I think I should tell you of Ben Doon, a potter who greatly admire. See Ben Doon is an educated man, Ben Doon travelled the world in his youth, Ben Doon saw many things and decided that people in love with things, Ben Doon lives in seclusion in a converted mill on a hill about a glen in Scotland, Ben Doon has no need for worldly things, Ben Doon makes potter from locally sourced materials that he then trades for the things he needs, Ben Doon makes his own Whisky, Ben Doon is a potter, Ben Doon is very well read and believes in science, Ben Doon suffers no fools, Ben Doon has no time for BS. When I'm working in the studio, I'm always thinking to myself,

 "What Would Ben Doon Do?"