Ceramics: Art and Perception

Down the Rabbit Hole, Chased by a Poodle

Your ceramic poodle pipes look like the bubble pipes we had as kids”, said a prospective art teacher buyer. I was peddling my wares at the Michigan Art Education Conference on Mackinac Island: books, ceramics, and, recent poodle marijuana pipes. Eureka! A new market ploy that skirted the stigma of me selling weed pipes, to selling “tongue-in-cheek” bubble pipes. Dual usage, two for the price of one, suck in marijuana smoke or blow out bubbles.

“Your ceramic poodle pipes look like the bubble pipes we had as kids”, said a prospective art teacher buyer.

Down the Rabbit Hole

It had never been my intention to make marijuana or bubble pipes.

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