Andre Torrez

We’re back from a week in Italy. It was my first time back in exactly 21 years and so much had changed. Last time we navigated without phones and used paper maps, this time went much more smoothly and it felt like we did twice as much stuff.

Anyway, I’m back and so excited to get back to work. I have hundreds of photos of art and architecture. I feel like so much of my ceramic work for the next few months is going to draw directly from what I saw. I’ll try to share it here as I make it.

I built a little web app for myself to track casting progress and firing.

The freedom to make the exact thing you need without any accommodation for future growth or other use cases is not something I used to do very often.

I’d always have a general target I’d be shooting for but the little voices of things potential users will ask for (and the time it will take to implement) was always in the back of my mind.

Now this is just for me and probably nobody else and that’s completely fine.

From left to right a bean dosing cup, an espresso cup, and a larger cup for espressos or cortados.