They Say,

it is good to have a goal in life,

 something to aim and aspire to, and the goal that U.K.-based ceramic artist Anna Whitehouse set herself was to create a new bottle each day for 100 days,

 and she did! She started on January 1, 2018,

 and here are some of the results,

 by limiting herself to a single form, she was able to stretch her  creativity to formulate new designs previously unexplored in her practice, each white ceramic bottle was uniformly shaped, but the designs she created on the surface differed each day,

 some bottles were punctured with tiny repetitive holes, while others were covered in leaf-like applications or floral motifs, “I tried pressing and scraping any tool I could get my hands on into the clay,” Whitehouse explains, “From my standard clay tools to pen lids, tweezers, scissors, and even a string of beads! I also started making my own tools from bits of broken pen, wire, and aluminum to create particular marks.”​

 the artist compares the 100-day-long exercise to journaling or filling a sketchbook, as each new object was like a brand new sketch that could be learned from for the next day, “I’ve kept the work unglazed, like white pages from a sketchbook, highlighting the mark making through the contrast created by shadows.”

 after the completion of her project Whitehouse created a “clay calendar” which you can visit on her website,

 the interactive portfolio outlines each bottle she made from January 1 to April 10, 2018, and includes her unique titles which are based on something that happened during the day they were made,

You can see further iterations of her bottles and clay creations on her Instagram, for myself I am just amazed at how she can come up with a completely different pot everyday all looking totally different, but with the same basic shape.