Daily photos no. 41: Going Potty

Stoke's British Ceramic Biennial is always an interesting event. It's held in the semi-derelict former Spode factory in the heart of the city, and attempts to resituate Stoke's mass pottery industry with a more art-oriented approach. Some of the work is banal, some is beautiful or striking, and the aesthetic of the setting is heavily influenced by ruin porn - I'm never quite sure whether it's an insulting suggestion to the local population that they live in an post-apocalyptic hole (it's certainly post-industrial) or simply making the best of it.

Some years the ceramics astonished me, but not a lot caught my eye the first time.