Making pots is a quiet and restful antidote to making buildings – it is possible to be alone and in complete control of the form. Form rather than decoration interests me so I use only off-white or dark brown/black glazes. Seldom do I make a form as good as the ideal I have in mind, so I’m content to make repeated attempts trying to get the form just right – as Samuel Becket advised: “Try again. Fail again. Fail better”. With buildings, unfortunately, the architect only ever gets one chance.
