Reading is not my top past time, it does not keep my hands busy enough, but recently I have been catching up on a book published in 1968, David Pye’s “The Nature and Art of Workmanship”. Any sentence that has both Nature and Art in it and I am hooked but it is his concept of Workmanship of Risk and Workmanship of Certainty that have lit a bulb for me. There are very few certainties and quite a few risks within the field of ceramics and I think that is why I continue to be drawn further under its spell. My work is neither a success or a failure it is a very long winding journey with highs and lows and many things to learn a long the way, just like life its self.
Below is a sculpture that took several weeks to make and several months to dry. I was excited throughout its making and was looking forward to opening the kiln after its final firing, torn apart by the tension of the porcelain. It is “Imperfectly Perfect”
