More on pottery
Feb. 27th, 2024 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormIt's all mud and blood and fire
Dirt and fire and skill
Reaching back into the misty distance
Crystallized into messages
We bequeath ourselves
For as close to eternity as we get.
Looking back
We see ourselves in the magnetic pull of the wheel
Red splattered on our thighs
Birthing beauty and function
Sometimes dying in the fire
And sometimes surviving it
Carrying our fingerprints into the future.
All around me in the studio I see the pottery enforcing both awe and humility on people. It's the same feeling I get working with plants; nature is bigger than us but also is such a magnifier of our abilities. Plants, rocks, it's all chemistry underneath. I like it a lot. I like seeing that combination of awe and humility in people; it's such an understandable way to approach the world and draws me into the community. I love that people are specializing. I love the excitement of the kiln opening.
Dirt and fire and skill
Reaching back into the misty distance
Crystallized into messages
We bequeath ourselves
For as close to eternity as we get.
Looking back
We see ourselves in the magnetic pull of the wheel
Red splattered on our thighs
Birthing beauty and function
Sometimes dying in the fire
And sometimes surviving it
Carrying our fingerprints into the future.
All around me in the studio I see the pottery enforcing both awe and humility on people. It's the same feeling I get working with plants; nature is bigger than us but also is such a magnifier of our abilities. Plants, rocks, it's all chemistry underneath. I like it a lot. I like seeing that combination of awe and humility in people; it's such an understandable way to approach the world and draws me into the community. I love that people are specializing. I love the excitement of the kiln opening.
