Best Habitation - Etsy Spotlight: Erik Haugsby Pottery

Handmade teapot ($108.36)

I'm really excited to innovate you lot to a novel serial I am starting on the blog, the Etsy Spotlight interviews. If you lot follow along about time, together with hence you lot receive got likely noticed my passion for 10 best sources for chunky knit blankets on Etsy post? It has to a greater extent than than 26k pins on Pinterest!) I decided to larn to a greater extent than personal together with larn to know the people behind all those beautiful creations. After all, this is the magic of Etsy, each together with every production at that topographic point has a unique story, a history perhaps, it has soul together with character, far from the overconsumption traits of our fourth dimension together with a creative crafter or collector behind it to portion it amongst us.

It was actually difficult non to notice Erik Haugsby's creations equally presently equally they landed on my Etsy feed page about fourth dimension ago. Although a considerably novel store, it has move a favorite of mine from the really beginning. His pottery is unique, a fusion of fine art together with function, everyday objects amongst a degree of creative roughness that tin either proceed you lot companionship through your daily rituals or decorate your abode amongst them. Or both. You tin read his (rather idea provoking) interview after the confine addition honor a code for a 15% discount he is kindly offering to you lot to utilization at his store.

Tell us a piddling chip virtually yourself together with your store. 

My name’s Erik these are my pots for you lot or people to utilization that is: pottery or functional ceramics that is: receive got inward your manus or to your oral cavity (how sensual it is to concur it to your mouth) or residuum upon your tabular array this an object a spell of the Earth together with know it was made yesteryear hands for hands my hands are 28 years one-time equally they type these. 

Till today at to the lowest degree we’re all on the same Earth together with it’s that the Earth inward my pots at to the lowest degree inward part. The Earth inward my pots it comes from the Earth together with the pots their surface is rock together with drinking glass together with burning forest melted together with unmelted forest it survives 1240˚C or 1360˚C or to a greater extent than or less humans melt at those temperatures but my pots experience. Hold my pot together with endure the sense together with taste it.

“Hipster degree 4” together with “beanpole” written inward my mag feature’s comments section. Never read the comments section. My shop’s comment department shows ★★★★★. 

How/when did you lot realize that your honey for creating tin live something to a greater extent than than a hobby? 

I brand hazards out of hobbies I got into photojournalism because I liked to receive got pictures together with said how tin I brand coin or that is last taking pictures. I couldn’t hence I didn’t I couldn’t compromise together with receive got pictures for other people together with hence move abode together with receive got pictures for me when I took pictures for me I idea what pictures practice They desire together with made no pictures that I want. I quit = I surrender without genuinely pushing myself to practice it I don’t regret it that determination got me here. 

From at that topographic point to here: 2011–2017: Minnesota Missouri New York Nepal Deutschland Austria. I alive inward cities close the H2O mayhap a subconscious decision.

Unemployment forces employment, or, self-employment. Creating a companionship taxes insurance forms bureaucracy paperwork the logistics of it who wants to practice that but I didn’t practice it because I wanted to (a lie: I did, but I didn’t) together with hence I did it together with inward a unusual linguistic communication unusual civilization no less because I receive got to else I wageslave I instantly force myself to practice it together with every hateful solar daytime inquire myself is this that I’m doing is it plenty practice I desire to practice it.

Guinomi ($30.10)

What is it that makes your products special? 

Do you lot similar me practice you lot purchase into my marketing linguistic communication together with story practice you lot desire my pot to live particular together with hence it’s special. It’s non the pot that’s special.


What influences your work?

H5N1 expert loving cup of tea because a expert loving cup needs a expert cup. Making my pots 1 time upon a fourth dimension the soundtrack was podcasts but who tin concentrate on pots when podcasts. Then after it’s withal instantly music but music makes me, i.e. I allow myself, brand what the music tells me. Too much fourth dimension spent online: Instagram Pinterest Facebook Google Image Search it’s likewise slow to retrieve likewise much thinking that thinking volition brand for expert making at that topographic point are likewise many expert pots out at that topographic point none of mine volition live those pots so: so: acknowledge. None of my pots volition live those pots because those pots receive got been made. All pots receive got already been made all photos receive got already been taken. So I tin brand my pots because it’s non that they’re made but that I’ve made.

Suzuki Goro Tsujimura Shiro Aaron Scythe the potters. together with Anja Slapničar because she believes inward pottery or has to. Iron Heart 301S bluish jeans. H5N1 mint-green plastic watering tin of unknown brand because the maker doesn’t matter. I sign my pots.

Woodfired ceramic guinomi ($30.10)

Describe your typical day.

Wake opened upwardly eyes come across other eyes that brand me smile. Two to 4 slices of bread, would you lot similar about breadstuff amongst your butter?, atop High German porcelain together with a at to the lowest degree 1 loving cup of java from a loving cup the shelf their pots together with mine I examination my pots. Bicycle 4,6 km including yesteryear the identify where Schubert died Stalin lived Hitler stayed Beethoven played together with thousands upon thousands did? Vienna’s been continuously settled since 500 BC I had to banking concern gibe my sources for that fact. Into the cellar an Austrian cellar pots together with dust it’s non dust it’s silica together with this isn’t expert for my wellness but what is. In 1 room 1 xx m2 me my supplies on shelves my cycle on the flooring my kiln on the flooring my pots on the shelves together with the floor. Before during after: indulgences mine together with others howdy how are you? i don’t utter equally I write. There’s the sun; or there’s the cloud; there’s me existing nosotros be let’s be together isn’t this just: it. Other things occur inward betwixt the things that happen.


What is the 1 thing you lot would alter if you lot were starting over?

Start over.

Okay hence I’m telling you lot because I’m telling me because at that topographic point are a listing of emails I request to write that is: inward a word: write. Or,: do. Don’t retrieve likewise much because they don’t retrieve virtually you.

Woodfired ceramic vase ($126.41)

What aspects of your business/store practice you lot taste the most/least? 

Enjoy.

I’m making coin am I making coin is this what I’m supposed to practice similar who cares virtually a pile of clay: You should help virtually a pile of clay Why? because I’m telling you lot to. But who am I to say you? But how much amend your life would live if entirely you lot knew. Give me coin together with your life volition live better. That’s it: give me coin together with your life volition live better. In the mean time I’m going to move over to this loma over at that topographic point together with dig clay out of the Earth because that’s the clay I tin utilization to brand the pots you lot use. Excuse me I’m going to receive got a hammer to my bad pots at that topographic point are lots of them I can’t alter them I tin entirely brand novel ones together with pause the bad ones similar bad memories don’t you lot want you lot could pause your memories together with poof they’d live gone forever.


Erik is kindly offering a 15% discount to his store for the readers of the spider web log amongst code MYPARADISSI (valid until 24th December)

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Woodfired pilgrim jounce ($210.69)