Maria Robledo sent us this portrait of a pitcher she made recently in her new explorations working with clay. When we asked her about it, her email read like a poem:

I broke the pitchers handle and a bit if its back, before it was bisqued (fired) in the kiln.

The clay is still able to disolve

In a wet process.

I liked the angle of the break and saw a possibility to salvage the little thing with a technique involving lightly sanding it slowly gently against a rough

Surface.

I shaped the angle almost by following the actual break.

This is moving me in other directions in the pottery making 🙂

That is SOME broken object: an artwork unto itself.

Maria followed the path of accidental breakage, transforming it into something ELSE.

We are knocked out!