Figurative Ceramic Sculptures and Other Creations

What the Clay Knows

Sculpting earth with touch and tool and fire

Formed of feeling,

Of memories and time,

Gently pushing aside resistance

Into existence.

Gesture, texture and hue

Composing the moment

With the subconscious

Suppressed sensations

and ignored questions

I couldn't bring myself to ask.

Autonomous truths peeking through

Unencumbered by their reception

Indifferent to implications

Present.

Visiting old stories

The hard things already living there

Lessons, too

waiting in fur and fang.

Contradictions peacefully coexisting

Uninterested in the struggles they create

Resolution the fool’s errand

Acquiescence the keystone

Of the archway to what’s next.

Ancient methods

ancient particles

ancient experiences made new

In ceramic and oxide

Glaze and ash

Entropy doing its honest work

Something truer than intention

Blooming from heat and smoke.