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Ana Shioshita | Episode 1125
Ana Shioshita is a potter working in Vancouver Canada. Ana was lucky enough to grow up in Boulder Colorado around a lot of clay from a young age. Ana has spent the last decade designing for film, and has only recently started focusing on pottery full time. Ana is interested in creating work that conveys a sense of movement with the static medium of clay.
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How do you decide on something to demo?
As this is the first time doing it I can only answer for this time but it was sort of something that is interesting, fits the tools available, and also something that I have done enough that I am pretty sure I am not going to mess it up in front of people.
Are there secrets that you are going to hold back that you don’t necessarily want to give as a freebie at a demo?
Honestly, no. This has been a thing that has come up with the drippy vases a lot. It was an issue at one point. I think holding back secrets is something that you can totally choose to do. I sort of hope that if you are transparent with people they are going to have enough artistic integrity to know the line between applying this to a technique to my own thing and copying a design.
When you are demoing a product line do you feel like it is authentic because you are a user of that product and that brings authenticity to what you are showing?
The simple answer is that I wouldn’t demo for something that I wouldn’t use. And that is something that has come up with social media is people being like, Hey would you try this thing and promote it on your social media? And so far my answer has been, No, it has to be something that I truly use and wholeheartedly recommend. I am not knocking when others do it, but for me doing a demo I want it to be something that I can say, No, this is good and I want to tell you why its good.
How does taking time to practice and think through what you are going to demo help you be better at what you do?
For the demo specifically, I have a really poor concept of time and how much time things take. So the biggest thing was that I would run through it the things that I have in my head and see how long it takes. Then I could see that it was a little dry, but I thought it was really valuable information. Then I knew that I either had to step it or pare it back as far as speed.
When you are not in the studio, what do you do for fun?
I go to movies and go hiking. During the film strike a couple years ago I became a sea kayak guide. So I do that during the summers.
Book(s)
The Murderbot Series by Martha Wells
Contact
Instagram: @shioshita.ceramics
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