{"id":2474,"date":"2026-06-03T19:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:04:24","slug":"3-summer-shards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2026\/06\/03\/3-summer-shards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"#3 summer shards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When working towards a firing in our wood kiln, I choose to be confined to my studio world. I am happy working in soft clay with delicate touches in the winter light. I often make mistakes. When working large and thick I edit down. Sometimes, I refer back to the journals and images from my travels to far away cities or the books in our library which can take me to endless kiln sites in the history of ceramics. But ultimately, I end up recognizing my own inherent ways of working, looking, and touching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/03-summer-shards-2026-1024x729.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/03-summer-shards-2026-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/03-summer-shards-2026-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/03-summer-shards-2026-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/03-summer-shards-2026-1536x1093.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/03-summer-shards-2026-2048x1458.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Snapdragon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Soul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We begin confined to a world<br>soft and small and delicate.<br>If we&#8217;re lucky,<br>we end in the same half-light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My children ask why I make<br>so many mistakes<br>and I don&#8217;t have the heart to tell them<br>this is my first rodeo<br>just as much as it is theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had to go to every city<br>just to find out how<br>we take ourselves<br>everywhere we go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014Kate Baer, in <em>How About Now: Poems<\/em>, HarperCollins, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When working towards a firing in our wood kiln, I choose to be confined to my studio world. I am happy working in soft clay with delicate touches in the winter light. I often make mistakes. When working large and thick I edit down. Sometimes, I refer back to the journals and images from my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}