Learning from the inside out. I’ve often wondered how different my path would have been if I hadn’t learned everything from the inside out. I didn’t know, nor did I try to find out, if other people were trying to learn to make pots. For me, this was a personal, internal journey. I was looking …
Lesson three:The concept of centering. Today, everywhere I turn I hear “stay centered”, “be mindful”, “just breathe”. The first time I encountered these concepts was in the studio listening to the clay. “Centering” became the single most important thing I was trying to understand. I had taken the first serious step toward a life in …
Dancing around the center. All the time I was discovering the small lump of clay I had brought home from the mountains. I was staring at a home-made potter’s wheel. It was the reason I had gone out and found clay in the first place. I knew nothing about how to use the wheel. I …
I’ve always been someone that falls in love easily and completely. When I fall in love, it lasts a lifetime, it becomes a part of me, and my heart is forever changed. Falling in love with clay was no exception. My love affair with clay began in a single afternoon. I fell hard, without reservation …
