ANAGAMA MAMA
My
art is born, expressed in clay. Timeless, subtle, useful and beautiful.
In clay are my feelings; into the deep center I pull: it becomes a
bowl.
To make pottery is to give form to what I love.
Through my bare hands the body and soul meet; Spirit in a vessel,
tried by kiln fire.
A
collaboration of the four elements: earth, air, fire, water.
Self
portrait at the mouth of Hiroshi Ogawa's Wood Fire Kiln, Hikarigama (Illuminated Kiln),
Elkton, Oregon
Mary
Daly, the feminist author, has a term for a woman that endures
fire without harm: "Pyrosophical, Dragon identified woman:
Salamandrous, living as it were, in the fire, hot, passionate."
The kiln, the anagama is my temple.
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