Yes, it's often within ceramic artists nature to be a perfectionist. You are trying to achieve something, yet the processes are often out of your control. Things can happen, widely throwing, something unexpected and air bubbles. Or when you place your piece in the kiln and you close the door and you turn it on. Once you examine that failure and you harness it, you look at what happened and how to recreate failure. It can also become something unique to yourself where you are now in control of this process that other people haven't encountered yet. What I am doing now is just painting a little wax onto the underside of the plate. If I don't do this, it will stick onto the kiln shelf because the glaze itself is going to melt and become all glossy. We are just going to take my dipping tongs and grab the plate, put it into the glaze. The glaze is as simple as that. The back is now clear of glaze. And here we go. This is our first look into the kiln.