DRAFT

I began working on the potters wheel needing to create a physical reflection of effort and time. I felt unfulfilled by working in corporate tech and yearned for an analogue pastime in addition to teaching meditation classes. I quickly learned that working with clay requires an acceptance of impermanence and recognized the link between working with clay and my buddhist upbringing. 

Working with porcelain gives real-time feedback on the stillness of your mind, and the rituals involved in throwing became a part of my daily mediation practice. When I feel off-balance, my pieces are inevitably unstable. Centering clay became a right of passage, grounding me to place and time; and through intentional breathing, I found better control in forming clay.

My work is a reflection of who I am on a particular day, it’s never perfect and neither am I. Are you?