Blog Day 1. What is this space?
Welcome to The Blog. Hey there! This is Ken at RESEED Ceramics. This blog has no name and may never. We feel we need to do this, so we are. As of now, this is just me rambling away about not much. It's getting colder again. Summer seems to be at an end. We've harvested pretty much all we can from our gardens. Some squash and tomatoes are still lingering but may never finish before the frost murders them. Nature is cruel. It's still no excuse for ours, though. Cruelty that is. Humanities. Not we at RESEED, per se. But we do know we live the lives of creators. In creating a thing, we must destroy a thing. Again, no excuse for not seeing this as a tremendous responsibility. We take from this Earth. The raw clay. Glaze. Electricity. Taking something, never to return it, to make something. That seems to be the nature of the universe. A giant ball of gas fell into itself to make our sun and world. That beautiful nebula that made us all will never return. Was the cost of it worth the price of us? As humans, we face this fact, aware of it or not. As the exponentially dominant maker species of this world, should we not strive more for balance and quality over "cost-effective," "scaled-up" mass quantities? What are we in it for? How do we justify what we make vs what is destroyed forever? While not always successful in the utopian viewpoint of balancing our "economic growth" with planetary death, we do know that our ceramics are not intended to be disposable. With the same care you give a cell phone, a ceramic piece can last forever. Yeah! Just don't drop it! Our cell phones, with countless costly atoms, may give you a few years of usefulness. And then they become "waste." Ceramics don't need updates. Ever. They are a thing that can work forever. Just don't drop it.
Ceramics ... like this! For instance:
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