Born deaf, this young sculpture student makes weird and wonderful works of art. And then sometimes he destroys them.
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00:00The fact that I'm deaf is a little bit of a blessing for me because it's a little bit quieter inside when I want it to be and it relates to pottery in that way because at the wheel it feels quiet to me.
00:12But you see like pictures of pottery, but you don't see this weird like ceramics of like some guy making like some weird character and smashing it doing like all sorts of like funny random things.
00:31I think that is like an interesting part of it. There's also the ASMR part. It's really satisfying. And then obviously I do it with my shirt off. So I think there's this, you know, aspect of physical attraction that drives people to watch my videos.
00:45I remember falling in love with like being able to like make something out of a piece of like clay, just being able to transform it into this like piece of art. And I thought to me that was so special.
01:01All my other daily thoughts are gone and I just focus on the pot and I really don't have an idea of what I'm going to make before. I usually just throw a cylinder and then I sort of let my hands and my brain just do the work for me. It's kind of like magical and it's like one of the most beautiful things.
01:19In my left ear, I have a cochlear implant. And in my right ear, sorry it's a little noisy, I have a hearing aid. And so I was born deaf and I've, you know, I've been trying to use my TikTok and everything to have a voice among the deaf community and saying that like if you're born deaf or anything like that, you know, you have to have a voice.
01:49If you don't have that at all, you can do what you want. Growing up, I've had a lot of like anxiety and I've also experienced like some depression in my life. And I find that when I sit down on my pottery wheel, a lot of that eases.
02:03And one thing about being deaf is when I take out my hearing aids at the end of the night to go to bed, I feel sort of at ease and comfort. So when I'm sitting down at the pottery wheel, a lot brings me back into myself, like who I am as a person.
02:21My style of art in ceramics is based off of a lot of things I see and experience in everyday life. Like this one, I'm thinking of this right now, it's like a beehive. So like, I like am inspired by the things that are around me.
02:45I've been making a lot of these pieces with like this bottleneck opening right here. And it's just one of my favorite pieces to make because it takes a lot of precision. And it takes a lot of like, you know, mental focus. I'll actually show you another one that I it's like this like, weird, just like, I don't know, it kind of looks like a Christmas tree or something.
03:06If you're trying to get into pottery, the number one thing that you have to have is patience. When I first started throwing my pots on the wheel, it was awful. Every pot that I threw was a disaster. And a lot of times I got mad and angry. But at the same time, you have to realize that everything in life, you know, takes practice.
03:33It's not like you're going to sit down at the wheel and throw a pot in one go, it's going to take a little bit of time. So patience is key. Also, like having fun with it, you have to take it lightly. I mean, it's not like you're sitting down and taking a test like you're making art. So if you're making a pot and it just breaks, it's like, okay, well, I'll make another one.