by KP | Mar 17, 2019 | Instagram, Random, Social Issues
With a few edits for clarity, a few digital embeds, and a few hyperlinks added, this is the eulogy I offered for my grandfather, Harry Plows, who passed away on March 12, 2019 at 97. By now, you may have heard the big stories about our grandfather. Five bronze stars...
by KP | Sep 6, 2018 | Ceramics, Instagram, Random
On your first time in the new studio, you’ll feel uncomfortable and out-of-place. Every studio has its own systems, and what once made sense in your old space will seem like jibberish in a new one. When I first sit down at a potter’s wheel, I step on the pedal and...
by KP | Jul 8, 2017 | Education, Random, Social Issues
During July 2017, I was lucky to spend ten days in KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa, traveling with a group of 14 students from my school and two other chaperones. Although the trip is classified as ‘service,’ it’s much more immersion and...
by KP | Aug 24, 2016 | Education, Random, Social Issues
Without [farm], where would we be? Tied in barns, tied to trees, left inside or outside to starve, injured, lame and in pain, blind, or standing in the kill pen waiting for our death sentence. Waiting for our final ride to the agony of a cruel and undeserved end. What...
by KP | Jul 23, 2015 | Ceramics, Random
There is a spot in northern Michigan where a creek that has been meandering through the forest rushes into a great lake. I won’t tell you where it is, because I would be giving away a secret gifted to me by locals – friends who, on my first visit to the place,...
by KP | Aug 21, 2014 | Ceramics, Random
This summer took me me from seven challenging weeks in Michigan through a few troubling days in Pennsylvania to an August perch on an island in Maine. Here I’m a student, trying to figure out whether I am still supposed to make things. Â I have been living out a...
