How do you describe an egg? Smooth, oval, fragile, protective, peaceful... How do you describe a grenade? Oval, bumpy, mechanical looking, metal, explosive... Now think about your personality. Are you more of an egg or a grenade? Or are you a little of both?
You are going to create a 3 dimensional oval shape using two pinch pots put together. Then you are free to add, subtract, carve, attach, texture, crack, puncture, smooth, stabilize, etc it to reflect your personality. The egg can open and have elements inside, it can look like it's made from another material, it can be cut, smooshed, angled, dripping, oozing, exploding.... whatever you think will represent your personality... NOT YOUR INTERESTS. DO NOT MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN ANIMAL OR FACE!
Really think about the concept behind it....be creative and thoughtful.
Think about this.....
Are
You a Carrot, An Egg, or a Coffee Bean? By Anonymous
A young woman went
to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her.
She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was
tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one
arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots
with water. In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and
the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without
saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She
fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and
placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what do
you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
She brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots.
She did and noted that they were soft. She then asked her to take an egg and
break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally,
she asked her to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled, as she tasted its rich
aroma.
The daughter then asked. "What does it mean,
mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced
the same adversity—boiling water—but each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard and unrelenting. However
after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.
The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected
its liquid interior. But, after sitting through the boiling water, its inside
became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they
were in the boiling water they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter.
"When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot,
an egg, or a coffee bean?"
Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems
strong, but with pain and adversity, do I wilt and become soft and lose my
strength?
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes
with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after death, a breakup, a
financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does
my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff
spirit and a hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the
hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot,
it releases the fragrance and flavor.
If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst,
you get better and change the situation around you. When the hours is the
darkest and trials are their greatest do you elevate to another level?
How do you handle Adversity? Are you a Carrot, an egg, or a
coffee bean?
