Form Follows Function

Here's something that gets drilled into your head when you study biology:



“Form follows function” means that the form of a structure within an organism is directly related to the function of that structure. (For example, a bird’s wing and a human arm are homologous structures and have the same bones, yet are differently modified to serve different functions.)

Here's something that I would guess most biology majors will never be exposed to:



"The Chronicle of Wasted Time" is from one of Shakespeare's sonnets:

When in the chronicle of wasted time

I see descriptions of the fairest wights,

And beauty making beautiful old rhyme

In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,

Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,

Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,

I see their antique pen would have express'd

Even such a beauty as you master now.

So all their praises are but prophecies

Of this our time, all you prefiguring;

And, for they look'd but with divining eyes,

They had not skill enough your worth to sing:

For we, which now behold these present days,

Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. 

It's one of the smaller cells, the chronicle of wasted time:

None of the inside pieces are attached, everything is loose and will possibly be glazed into place, but they're pressed inside to maintain the curvature of the parts.

Here's a detail shot of the outside:


This is the glazing process (nearly complete) of my test piece, my least favorite of the five cells I've made so far and which I'm using to test various glaze combinations on:



The outer surface is covered with iron oxide and an array of matte glazes (green matte, blue matte, purple matte, iron matte, and turquoise) as well as a blue crawl glaze.



The inside will look bland until it's fired, but it is covered with iron oxide and shiny, runny glazes (Archie's base, blue-purple, ice blue, red gold) as well as other shiny, non-runny glazes (eggshell white), satiny glazes, and crawl glazes.



We'll see where any of that takes us.