Pottery studio and into the shed

We've waited months, the new norm, for the access to the back yard and our shed to be put in. The dog seems able to scale the cliff in two bounds - but I'm no longer able or willing to go over the edge. Two big retaining walls are being built across the back of the property and somehow they'll carve in a sloping access to the shed so I can finally get the pottery wheel unpacked and back into service. I've so missed working with clay and can't wait to see how much muscle memory there is left in my arms. Looking forward to some slab and hand built work, and progressing my Parliament of Owls.

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Making progress Trees #2

By our hands

The mess before the beauty

The excavator's words have stuck in my head, rent free. ' I have to make one hell of a mess before it can become beautiful. There is no beautiful end without the mess '. Or words to that effect. The retaining walls at the back of the house have to be finished before anything else can happen in the yard - and in between downpours, a few expletives and more rain, it has beena testing time for all involved in the construction. I thought about his words - and the effort of making a quilt from scratch. The planning, drawing, testing, dyeing, playing, creating, starting again, creating and the final 'ah ha'. There is so much 'mess' before a quilt is resolved becomes a thing of meaning and beautiful in its own way. Blessed are the excavators.

Ali George Artist

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