saw a pic of a maria martinez vase on the dash and had to physically hold myself back from reblogging it to tell everyone abt her burnishing technique
that’s not even glaze do you understand that’s not glaze that’s burnished slip!! she was just that fucking good!! some of the most beautiful pottery on earth imho
Martinez is from San Ildefonso Pueblo in northern New Mexico.
i swear to god NOTHING makes me more pissed off then when everyone is like “oouheuehghoughough ough [thing] is so good it’s a classic you’ll love it” and they say it SO OFTEN that you resolve on principle to loathe [thing] with your entire being but when you actually get around to experiencing [thing] it literally IS That Good. physically trembling with rage at the fact that hamlet actually is one of the best plays ever written. DIE
me when shakespeare plays actually DO have modern-day relevance and universal themes:
