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A friend of mine
was teaching me to write my web site, and when she had explained something,
told me to play on the pc. I thought it was just a matter of being shown
something and then doing it. I didn’t realise that there were many ways of
doing it and...... what would happen if I tried this..... or that?
When I started
to play I realised that I could do endless things, sometimes it was
frustrating, things went wrong, but it was all up to me to choose what to
do.
Working with clay should be like that. The teacher can show you a technique
or way of doing something, but then you have to play and find out the
possibilities and exactly what you want from the clay. Lately we all seem to
be short of time and want things now. No time to play and enjoy ourselves.
We want to get from A to B in the quickest time, not realising that the time
involved in getting there,
is the real learning process.
When I want a relaxing moment, I take a ball of clay and
close my eyes and think about this ball of earth in my hands. How old it
must be and where it probably came from. |
