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    Marcie McGoldrick

    Porcelain Incense Vessel

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    $247.00 - $263.00
    Regular price
    $263.00
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    $247.00 - $263.00
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Marcie McGoldrick

โ€œYou have to be a bit of a glutton for punishment with ceramics,โ€ says Marcie McGoldrick, whose utility crock and footed bowls, both in white porcelain, exemplify minimalist elegance. McGoldrick began her pottery career after taking a class in ceramics while pursuing a masterโ€™s degree in industrial design at the Pratt Institute. โ€œI loved it right away,โ€ she says now, from her newish home studio outside Philadelphia. Ceramics would remain a hobby during her 17-year career at Martha Stewart Living in New York City; in recent years, that one-time diversion has occupied more and more of her schedule. She begins by making a plaster model on her lathe: โ€œItโ€™s almost horizontally thrown,โ€ she says. With the finished mold in hand, she slip-casts each piece, preserving its refined details, and then glazes the interiors. The process of achieving the intended result, she says, is one of ceramicsโ€™ most indelible challenges. Each step in the process presents myriad opportunities for things to go wrong, or wonderfully right. โ€œEven when you understand the process, things don't always come out the way you expected โ€” there's so many different ways that things could go wrong,โ€ she says. โ€œItโ€™s not a negative, though โ€” itโ€™s problem solving, and I love the process of figuring it out.โ€