This is one of many ceramic pieces I completed in my high school pottery class.
This was an extra ceramic piece I made outside of my pottery class, and the last piece I made in high school. I wanted to create an honorary decorative plate and chalice for my choir director, who was very close to the students in my year. We were the first and only class he traveled with outside of the country for the annual choir trip in spring. We visited Ireland and sang in cathedrals that were hundreds of years old, and we learned to sing the Irish Blessing specifically for the trip.
After having spent four years with each other, and our time together coming to an end shortly after the trip, it became a song that was very near and dear to all of us. I wished to pass the blessing on to our director, as a gift from everyone in our choir, after all the wonderful things he did for his students by teaching us music. At the end of the school year, each person in class was awarded "Most Improved" or "Best Smile," and because our director is over 6 feet tall, I decided to award him "Tallest Leprechaun."
