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  • Deception

    Nathaniel Kommu

    “The art of deception is comparable to pottery. It requires incredible patience and care, as any cracks in the base can bring devastating destruction to the piece.” – Me, because I’m wise.

    “Also, it’s a lot of fun” – Also me.

    This is the greatest piece I have ever made in my lifetime. In total, it took about 3 hours and 30 minutes to make, but I didn’t create it all in one session. I started the piece on November 7th, 2025, and I only got around to finishing it on February 4th, 2026. Moreover, the artwork went through numerous revisions along the way. The chicken is the only part of the artwork that I drew well the first try, and that’s probably because I’ve drawn HUNDREDS of chickens leading up to this point.

    The name may seem a bit strange at first, but like any good artwork, the name comes with a story.

    After I drew the chicken, I decided to show it to my friends. Here’s what they saw.

    “Awww, it’s adorable!”

    “Wait, you drew that?? Like YOU did that?? No AI?? Really?? That’s incredible!!

    Oh, the sweet, innocent souls. My only regret is not showing the original, innocent chicken to more of my peers before subjecting them to the final result.

    “…art is subjective, art is subjective, art is subjective…”

    “Oh… oh no.”

    *sniff* “…you made a tear shed from my manly eyes…” *sniffle*

    Of course, some of my peers are also the men in “some men just want to watch the world burn”

    “Hehe that’s GREAT”

    “Yeah that’s REALLY GOOD”

    Of course, I DO have a much more artistic and complicated explanation.

    “The oblivion in the eyes of the fowl illustrates the lack of warning from the caretaker, implying that the caretaker purposefully deceived the chicken over the duration of it’s entire lifetime. This creates a feel of innocence in the chicken, which counteracts the implied evil of the caretaker for committing an act of such cruelty.”

    Sadly, it’s extremely dull and filled with deception in itself. The idea of the caretaker deceiving the chicken over the duration of he chicken’s entire lifetime is an almost baseless assumption, and I certainly don’t believe that killing chickens is some sort of sin or form of cruelty. In the context of a farm for meat, keeping the chickens from the knowledge of their demise is probably for the best.

    If they’re stressed, the meat’s gonna be chewy, of course.

    Moving on, the dishonesty of the explanation may be what makes it perfect. Like the artwork itself, the explanation is not designed to explain anything. It is designed to be deception.

  • Ceramic Chicken: The First of its Kind

    Nathaniel Kommu

    This was my first project in my Ceramics 1 High School class. We were supposed to make a simple bowl using a pinch pot method. Basically, the idea is to make a ball and pinch the exterior and the interior at the same time. This procedure stretches the walls of the bowl out from the bottom of the bowl.

    I wanted to make this bowl… special. Chic N Wise, you see? I wanted to make it, just like everything else I make, CHICKEN THEMED. I brainstormed a couple different designs for the bowl, but eventually I landed on this. I created the shapes of the bottom and the lid using the pinch pot method. After I finished, I added the beak and the red spikes on top, which are known as a comb.

    This is what it looks like with the lid taken off the bowl. If you look closely, you can see the line where I connected the bottom beak to the bowl. The glaze made the edges have a darker tint, so it’s easier to understand what the shape looks like.

    This is the interior of my project. It tapers inwards slightly and has a flat bottom. The glaze is evenly distributed and covers the entire bowl, except for the bottom. We couldn’t glaze the bottom because it would melt and stick to surfaces.

    Overall, I’m happy with how my project turned out. The glaze was poorly done on the top, and the place where lid and the bowl meet is too uneven. Moreover, the two parts of the beak can’t touch each other because of this unevenness. Still, the project fulfills its duty as a chicken-themed bowl, and as such I’m extremely proud of it.


  • TAXED!

    Nathaniel Kommu

    An American Dream

    A long time ago there was a man who was named Philip. He managed to raise a family in Boston, Massachusetts. His family consisted of him, his wife, and two children. His children’s names were Fred and Mary, and their mother’s name was Lucy. They were not fond of political parties, and if they were somewhere they didn’t want to be, they had a way of escape on their minds, no matter what it cost.

    “Tea! Cakes! Where are the tea and cakes?”, shouted Lucy, “We can’t be all out,we have guests next week!” “No tea?”, smiled the children. Had they not told Lucy tea will run out fast, they would not be smiling,of course. “Next week?” Philip exclaimed, “And it is Saturday children”, he added, noticing the children were smiling.

    This was not good. Taxes were on America already, and British troops were scouring the cities and villages. But this family had their secret “power”, even when separated: getting what they need and want. So when I say (and when you read) that he stole and ran away, I mean it.

    That tea lasted him the party. They asked short questions like “How?” and gossiped to all who listened. All gossip said and done, here is how the family got away.

    Philip had run in the opposite direction of home. Lucy felt Philip was in danger, so she smiled and said to the children, Fred being six years old and Mary seven, “Now you children stay in your rooms, and don’t let me find the entire house in ruins”. Children can be mischievous, but Mary knew the meaning of the sacred word called “don’t”.

    Searching for a clue to where he is located in her own mind, Lucy took the shortest route as fast as possible and reached the far side of the city Boston, Massachusetts. She knew the place like the back of her hand, as Philip did. So then she got to the far side, knocking down the tea seller with a surprise attack.

    The children obeyed orders and stayed in their room, and you know the rest.

    3 Years Later

    “This is getting too bad”, said Philip,“We simply must buy some other person’s tea! This tea is far too expensive!”

    “There is no other tea, how else can we get tea?”, said Lucy.

    “Let’s buy from Canada, their tea is just fine.”

    “Oh, well alright. It’s better than nothing.”

    Philip sneaked past taxes to a Canadian border, and notified the taste, price, looks, and variety of the tea. He found cheap tea he knew the family would like and went back home. The family, to his expectations, liked the tea, and they used that tea for the whole war.

    The End