When you hold something too tide, it loses the original shape. At the same time you are almost blind by what you are holding and trying not to loss. On the contrary, you already loss it by holding.Put it back, the silhouette shows and it was beautiful on its own.
This lesson is for me after my significant feline companion Baobao left last summer. It all happened in a sudden, in a very nice weather early morning. For the past eleven months, I passed the stage of “do not know why” ,feeling guilty of “not knowing he was sick”, then “be grieved, so I can still be closer to you“, then I am trying to let it go so I can finally “having him all around“.
As seeing my experiences to a life lesson, I turn this into my art practice. I am start learning wheel throwing and by doing it I start to have an idea of combining sculpture techniques with the wheel throwing.