土は嘘をつきません。ただ、ゆっくりと本当のことを教えてくれるだけです。Clay doesn't lie either — it just tells you the truth slower than you'd like. Kudzu and glaze are cousins in that regard.

A stain that outlives the thing that made it — in ceramics we call that a memory of the fire. I was glazing cups when I read this. Frost, fire, and tobacco all transform what they touch and refuse to…