The vase is about what you can’t see - the hidden volume that’s in there. What’s invisible defines the form, and when you look at a vase and you like it, what you really like is something beyond the physical - it’s the immaterial, weighty, contained, volume of the vase.

One of the numerous reasons to live with art, not that you need a reason, is that you never know, when encountering an example of it, a book, a movie, a ceramic bowl, a new song, how much of what you notice is really in you and how much is in the work itself, if any.

Fantastic students this summer, flying in from around the country, and great teaching - Green River Pottery’s A3 studio is honored to have had some gifted, funny, experienced, and inspiring teachers working closely with us through some hot afternoons.

Bowls often have a hidden quality that platters lack - a shifting, musical, essence that you can’t see but feel. Bowls are more mysterious and cosmic - you use them more every day, though.

After a while I stopped taking photos of pottery, partly because I visited either people’s studios or museums where photography was prohibited, which I kind of liked — allows you to concentrate. Leaving the cities I was impressed by the ragged rural landscape, the steep hills and little farms, woodpiles and junk piles