The Potter's Studio - Sex Stories

The Potter's Studio

... habit of throwing pots shirtless or loading and unloading the kilns in a flimsy tank top that was immediately drenched in sweat, were won over by the fact that he was loading and unloading kilns, taking on a ton of work that the assistants could not during finals and summer break, when many went home. He was tireless and affable, there was no one on the entire staff or board who did not immediately fall in love.

The smaller pieces from early in his apprenticeship were already glazed and ready. In pottery, most pots are fired twice. The bisque fire is at a lower temperature than the glaze fire. During this first process, the clay is heated and all the water is driven out of the piece. But the result is not usable yet as it remains porous and highly brittle. Glazes are then painted onto the piece, or they can be applied by dipping the item in a bucket of glaze or even with a pressure sprayer. The porous surface absorbs the glaze and this is then fired a second time. In this final firing, the structure of the clay is forever changed as the materials vitrify, making the piece impermeable and usable for carrying food and liquids.

Rows and rows of mugs, bowls, dishes, butter and sugar saucers with tiny gripping handles, all adorned Jeremy's shelves in the back of Kyle's workspace. He had over 200 pieces ready to sell. But in the three kilns firing at the moment were his first series as an artist and not just a craftsman. They were a deeper expression of a concept - the idea ...

... of a perfect curve - and not specifically meant for daily use as were the items already completed. He had taken the same 18 inch and 24 inch strings and thrown ten different shapes, from platters to vases, ranging the gap between his hands from 6 to 18 inches. The final pieces were those with the widest rims. They were by far the most challenging and, to create just five with such a wide diameter, took him a full week with ten failures per successful piece. He had quickly picked up the art of recycling clay so this was not an issue, but the breakthrough came when Kyle helped him tweak the clay recipe to make it a bit more resilient.

As Kyle was working on the next iteration of his Zephyr line, as he had decided to name his floating silk pitcher series, he decided to focus on the famous Marilyn Monroe picture where the gust of air from the subway grate blows up her skirt. He decided he would make 15 pitchers and end the series there. The first 14 were in honor of the 14 takes Marilyn had done in New York, where the scene was first filmed. It caused so much of a stir that thousands watched as she was filming and this attention so upset her husband at the time, Joe DiMaggio, that the two had a violent argument at their hotel later than night and Marilyn filed for divorce when she returned to California. In spite of the cost to her personal life, none of those scenes were usable because of the noise of the crowd and the nearly 100 independent photographers that also showed up ...