"In pottery, by developing sensitivity in manipulating natural materials by hand, I found a wisdom which had died out of the concepts I learned in the university… The life I found in the craft helped bring to a new birth my ideals in education. Some secret center became vitalized in those hours of silent practice in the arts of transformation."
- M.C. Richards
This new bowl and my recent experiments with copper oxides are proving to be pleasing. Returning to pottery after many, many years of absence has been a remarkable experience. I have been fortuante to meet some amazing teachers (yep, that is a shout out to the CPS community and Chris Harford in particular) who have challenged, encouraged, and guided me.
I practice pottery because of what it teaches me – patience, resiliance, openness, improvisation, the importance of presence and being able to let go – of the things I make and my ideas of what something needs to be…
Plus…pottery has proven great distraction from the papers I should be writing 😉
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