Some thoughts about the group project ...

There is still very much a mystery how our piece will turn out (will it even get remotely dry enough to be fired?), but as a group, I think we are ready for whatever will come out of the kiln. We know that whatever comes out of that kiln is not the 'end product'. I think that all our uncertainty around this project has made us think much harder and longer on this (i.e. what we are doing, trying to achieve, how the group dynamic works, how we communicate etc) than we otherwise would have. It is very interesting to see how the feeling we all had in the beginning that we had to 'control' this thing, the process, each other, the outcome, and how we now can look at this as a 'happy accident', a work of art (of course it is), a successful, collaborative, entropic piece of art that does exactly what it is supposed to do (i.e. surprise us with its outcome). I very much look forward to the final stages of what we have to go through with this piece, and I can already say with certainty that this has been the most interesting and fun piece I have worked with the whole term.