Craftsmanship Stories

What is your creative process?

I am a servent. I seat on my wheel, (or journal, watercolour, matt) and I create, for the pleasure of it.

For the joy and responsibility of a practice that teaches me life and love alive.

Is a shower for the self, blurriness and tensions have the opportunity to be washed and make space for silent, mind becomes friend to listen the heart and create with the hands. That what pulsates tiny moves within me, that what lights up the joy in there Intrigued or do not understand feelings meet
some sort of comfort aswell.

A space for contemplation. A creative practice helps me listen to them with a bit of more grace. And even if after I won't still have a name for them or understand them I can hold them and make peace. I feel lighter, something dissolves. And continue.

Why do you work with clay?

Because it is a very intuitive material with a lot of freedom without the need for many external tools.

Using fingertips, fingers, full
hand allows you to do a lot with the material as well as gain a lot of
sensitivity,- of touch feeling.

I feel also from my hands I can travel closer inside me, where purity, truth and love inhabit. Like an access road to the heart.

And I can establish some sort of conversation while shaping clay.

What do you want to transmit with your pieces?

Presence. The stillness that occurs in between movements. Like within breaths.

Self, humanity, sacredness.

Lots of pieces are just my homework, and the fun of practicing. Like when I glaze, itself an intuitive journey of brushstrokes and dives. The outcome of a meditation.

What is your relationship with nature? Why is it important to protect it?

For me Nature is not somewhere you go out for the day, or explore outside the window or in the countryside.

Nature is here. Available all the time. 24/7. Nature is essence, honesty, purity,- and lives in everything when I am present.
In the eyes of my dog, in a tree, as in a wooden table. The exchange of a smile while my love. A sun salutation in the top of the morning. Is what I find in the stillness of the breath.

Nature is found in the naturalness of everyday life, in the simplicity of the gestures of the heart.

It is important to protect it because it is reclaiming us, humans. We have
been given up for granted, dishonored and forgotten about it. And her life teachings.

Nature is the spirit of living things.

There is joy and wisdom on it- remedies on the plants, compassion on human hearts and fun in the sea.

That’s nature, and we need to protect her because is guidance.

Without awareness and care for nature we are lost.