Design

In the Studio: A Potter Quiet War on Perfection

She has thrown ten thousand bowls and kept almost none of them.

The wheel spins, the clay rises, and most of it goes back into the bucket. On purpose.

The useful failures

Each discarded piece teaches the hands something the finished ones never could.

Mastery is mostly a very large pile of things you chose not to keep.

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