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The wheel of life

‘At every stage you can stuff it up. Some days you just think, “I’m useless, I’m a terrible potter, everything has gone wrong!” Right at the very end, when you lift that lid off the kiln, it can be total joy or it can be absolute misery.’

xpert potters are like Jedi masters. Controlled, disciplined, with an aptitude for staring down challenges with no more than a muttered swear word. Making a single ceramic piece is a precise and lengthy process. Throughout every step, something can go

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