Centered in Clay

Let me begin with a hearty thank you for waiting patiently while I steered my small pottery business in a new direction. How things were. Archana Srinivas Pottery, like many small businesses was impacted by the pandemic.  The local art center where I created and fired my pottery in the community kilns shut down in March 2020. Frustration, disappointment, helplessness gradually morphed to acceptance and adjustments.  I considered this period of waiting as a creative incubation of sorts. Gave myself time, surrendered to what was and waited for the universe to arrange things for me.  The words of Katherine May the author of Wintering The power of rest and retreat in difficult times comes to mind. ‘We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.’ The nine months of not working with clay was my Wintering.  How things are. Eventually I started hand-building using techniques like Kurinuki, coil and slab build