After a weekend of meeting and greeting people, showing what I have been making over the last few months, I feel a little like a kohlrabi, part cabbage and part turnip. I have told the stories of my first pots and what they were inspired from; asked what is on my bucket list. Primarily, I keep saying I want to continue making pottery as well as imaging beautiful ways of using pots. I keep changing as I look at objects, read, and weed. Thus, my solutions keep shifting. It’s hard to translate my ideas and process into bite size pieces.
“I’m just very suspicious of any kind of summing up of any kind of this is who I am. Because, first of all, who I am is changing rapidly all the time with what I’m reading, and who I’m with, and what I’m experiencing. And then the other thing is even I can’t sum up who I am. So I don’t know if I can trust someone else to do it.”
–Ada Limon from an interview on the Ezra Klein show, 5/24/2022