It is often a simple and easy slope which leads us to forgetting the deep, physical, visual, emotional, and spiritual pleasure that comes to the heart of potters in the creative making of pots.Potters are often thought of as craftspeople who make pots in order to make a living, and that is somewhat true —…
Month: January 2023
containment: openness
The creative miracle is really simple. There is no detailed plan in the receptacle of the mind which the practiced body replicates in the physical world: the world of clay, the world of things. Art does not copy what appears to the mind’s eye. It is rather the spirit’s material form in the common world…
chained grace: pulsing
Chains are, well, chains – whether they be chains of ones and zeros or leg irons, whether they be the order of logic or the constraint of emotion. Grace is the immediate and direct presentation into human life of free and open abundance.The left and right columns encode the english expression “chained grace” twice; the…
physicality: clay’s human link
A bowl is such a simple object: open, balanced, a spatially-structured circle, a foot, a lip, a receptacle. But to make a bowl is an adventure and a loving challenge. It is difficult to visualize labourers whose artistry is more immediately sensuous than that of potters shaping supple, moist and plastic clay as it spins…