earthenware

How best to hold the artfulness of all that grows in this world?

holding the every day

A cup, a bowl, a plate.

Each help us to hold what nourishes us.

Throughout the day we reach for them. For our morning tea or coffee, porridge, soup, meal or midnight snack. Each sip or bite we take is a response to a biological need for restoration.

If we so desire, these moments can also be about re-connection with deeper forms of nourishment.

Each, in a particular way, harkens to the whole. To the myriad, complex, unperfect, ancient and beautiful wildness of the whole.

salt vessels

All bodies on Earth began in the sea.

Those of us on land carry the ocean inside of us. Even the horses of the tundra seek salt to stay alive.

Crystallized within mountains or sparkled around tidepools, salt in its original wild and unprocessed form gives our bodies what we need.

These salt vessels are inspired by the beauty and taste of salt crystals on the black lava shoreline reef at the very end of an ebbing tide.

Hand shaped and fired on Oahu, each vessel comes with a packet of crystals harvested on the island of Molokai by Salt Master and fellow paddler Nancy Gove of Pacifica Hawaii Salts.

talismanic bodies

Sometimes clay bodies want to take the form and shape of their own.

They may have inside of them a great desire to be a wave again. To have wings to unfold, again. To be a horse shoe crab, a whale, a bear, an amoeba.

Again.

And then maybe again.

They have stories. They are stories.

And they were created to accompany journeys of time and space.