After being back from almost a full year of ceramics, I was excited to finally get my hands in clay and start creating my work. For this collection, I have created 5 wheel-thrown vases with the top of the vase flat like a plate to attach my hand-sculpted sea turtles. I used a technique called bubble glaze, which is performed by putting some of the color glazes in a small cup, and mixing it with hand soap and water. Then, you get a straw and blow it into the mixture. This causes many bubbles to arise and form, letting them drip down onto your artwork. To make the vase blue and my turtles yellow-green, I had to paint stroke and coat on my turtles before the bisque fire so that when I did the bubble glaze, I just had to wipe it off. For my presentation around my artwork, you can see there is plastic. About 1,000 sea turtles die a year from digesting plastic. Plastic has caused an increase in sea life death, and it takes many years to biodegrade. Not only sea turtles but a lot of sea life can get tangled, leading to suffocation or even eating the plastic, causing death. My pieces are created to signify the beauty of our sea life by presenting the beautiful bubbly water with sea turtles. For each of my vases, I have created different textures through the amount of glaze and the different layers. For three of them, I only used blue glaze and no clear underglaze, but for the other two, I used a clear underglaze and two different colors of blue. This is to show the texture, roughness, and change, how not everywhere in the ocean looks the same; it is always changing. By looking at my work, I hope you can see that we are destroying our own sea life and killing innocent animals by using products that are not biodegradable or take forever to disintegrate. After reading my artist statement, I hope that you take away to stop killing our Earth. In the future, I hope I can create more pieces of work to reflect on keeping our environment safe.