pondering a new art (pottery)
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Yesterday I wrote here about not writing—how there will now be a long stretch of time when my in-progress novel slumbers. Things are what things must be. The real world calls.
Thanks to a gift from my husband, however, I will still make time, a few hours each week, to make something new. I won't be using words. I'll be using my hands. Think of me (beside my husband) at a pottery wheel. I'm thinking of this as a necessary relief valve in a life that will have me working through many a night.
I'll share what I learn about hands and craft here. As I (hopefully) learn it.
Thanks to a gift from my husband, however, I will still make time, a few hours each week, to make something new. I won't be using words. I'll be using my hands. Think of me (beside my husband) at a pottery wheel. I'm thinking of this as a necessary relief valve in a life that will have me working through many a night.
I'll share what I learn about hands and craft here. As I (hopefully) learn it.
6 comments:
What a beautiful gift!
I'm looking forward to you sharing your experience, Beth. I haven't done any ceramics, but I love working with encaustics.
Oh that sounds heavenly. I've always wanted to use a potter's wheel.
I gave Jay pottery classes a couple years ago. He made such beautiful things.
What a wonderful gift! I imagine you could be good at forming a shape out of a blob of clay as you are so good at molding ordinary words into beautiful books. Enjoy!
Hello Beth! What a wonderful gift, hopefully you can also share with us your experience and the artwork you made using the potter's wheel. :) I agree with Sarah, you are good at molding ordinary words into beautiful books, so I think this would not be a problem forming a shape out of a clay :) Thank you for sharing this post and will follow you more to check in your progress with the wheel hehe!
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