julez

a little stinker

  • they / he

nonbinary-agender, trans, 26, autistic, homo

potter for hire and for fun

t4t with @tati

radfairyjulian on discord


there’s a part of me that thinks it’s funny that i offer to sell my pottery at a sliding scale bc the things that really OUGHT to be at a sliding scale are like therapy, education, food, medicine, you know the things that can have a deeply negative affect if you go without and shouldn’t be dependent on how much financial privilege you have, but they (almost) never are.

but i also think art and beauty and everyday delights aren’t meant to be price gouged or for those with more cash to spend (cheap art manifesto in mind here, i dont have the link sorry) and idk i’ve been thinking lately about the typical gallery set up with like white walls, white ceilings, white pedestals, cold, sanitary places where the Art World can say whether or not you have made it because your creations are displayed there or not and i think about someone waking up early for work, tired, trying to get enough caffeine in their body to propel them to have the energy to get out the door on their commute and in their hands is something i made and they get to be present for a moment holding the object and feeling its grooves and the marks that i’ve made on a pile of mud, and feeling the warmth of their beverage through the ceramic and they can press the warmth up to their heart for a moment and breathe and that feels like a better thing to strive for than a cold sanitary white room of status.

and like absolutely artistic and artisan workers are deeply undervalued in society at large and i’m all for being compensated and compensating artistic labor and i try to say in the scale like here is where i break even and here is where i’m more compensated for the labor.

i just think it’s like such a wonderful and weird exchange to be like “pls bring this specific type of beauty into the world, it means so much to me” and to be the person on the other side being like “i will do my best to bring this specific type of beauty into the world you deserve to experience that joy”


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