Ep 602: The Catharsis of Supporting Others with Tim Clark

The Maker's Playbook

If you weren’t learning how to carve intricate designs in sourdough bread in 2020, odds are, you might have been learning how to make pottery. And while this is true for today’s guest, Tim Clark, that wasn’t all. Tim also was learning how to make pottery and navigate the rest of life after a spontaneous tear of the retina left him half blind. There seems to be quite the thru line for many of us finding pottery as a therapeutic thing, but Tim has taken this one step farther, in starting the Blindfold Challenge to help raise awareness and frankly, a bit of money, for an amazing cause called the Fun Eye Fund.
In this episode, we talk all about that plus how Tim has found the Blindfold Challenge cathartic in ways he didn’t expect and his new endeavors into creating art that’s accessible not only for us sighted humans, but equally enjoyable for those in the blindness community.

Resources in this Episode:
Tim Clark on Instagram
The Fun Eye Fund

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Chapters

1. Tim Clark (00:00:00)

2. Welcome to the Podcast (00:02:56)

3. Introducing the Half Blind Potter (00:03:01)

4. The Journey to Half Blindness (00:03:15)

5. Discovering Pottery During Recovery (00:07:06)

6. Learning and Mastering Pottery (00:11:46)

7. Raising Awareness and Community Support (00:18:45)

8. Navigating Life with Monocular Vision (00:23:41)

9. Blind Potter's Validation (00:43:48)

10. Networking in the Pottery Community (00:46:12)

11. The Blindfold Challenge: Raising Awareness (00:47:40)

12. The Fun Eye Fund: Supporting Prosthetic Eyes (00:56:45)

13. Pottery as Therapy (01:02:52)

14. Challenges and Triumphs in Pottery (01:05:00)

15. Final Thoughts and Future Plans (01:09:53)