Small footed bowl, measures 4.5" square x 2.5"h. Only 1 in stock. One of a kind!

Sequoia Miller, Swimming Deer Pottery - Olympia, Washington

 

Sequoia Miller is a native of Manhattan raised in Maine. He received his B.A. in Russian Cultural Studies, with a Minor in Art History from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. Afterward, Sequoia returned to New York where his passions turned away from academics and toward pottery. He furthered his education in ceramics by pursuing his favorite artists as teachers rather than enrolling in a degree program. Sequoia has studied extensively at craft schools such as Penland and Haystack, and with many of the nation's foremost potters.

 

“Making pottery is a process fundamentally about asking questions. Each time I sit at the wheel to make a familiar form, I recall the issues raised by the last series of pots I made of that type – how did they look with wider bases? Did I try faceting them? Some forms are prone to continual re-evaluation, and they change rapidly. Others evolve slowly and almost imperceptibly. The majority of my pots, though, rise and fall in a continuous fluctuation from active change to near dormancy.”

 

“I stay engaged with this process because the act of potting is, for me, the realization of archetypes and as actual pots. A bowl is both a bowl and Bowl. This dualism of symbolic and functional endows pottery with its secret life of metaphors and memory, and gives pottery an intense potential for resonance. I strive to make pots that reveal this duality not instantaneously, but over time and with use.”

Sequoia Miller relocated to the Pacific Northwest to establish a pottery studio in 1995. He exhibits in galleries and sells his ceramics nationally. Sequoia also teaches pottery workshops on a regular basis.