Pit Fire to Pond
I wanted to follow the methods of the oldest form of pottery- simply finding sticky mud and forming it. This pot would be brittle and useless and dissolve in water. Put this pot in intense fire, and something happens, the mud is irreversibly changed, no longer dissolves and
It holds water!
It begins with sticky earth
A human hand like neolithic times 3000BC
And a hole in the earth
We pack it with forms and dry matter
We set light to it and let heat do it’s work
We part the ashes and find our treasures
We dig further and line
And fill
And plant
And watch the animals come, the phoenix rise
Slowly