Finding one's way with clay : pinched pottery and the colour of clay / by Paulus Berensohn ; with photographs by True Kelly

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I. An approach to working. Finding my work, first steps toward freedom, preparing -- Exercise one: Making a small, symmetrical, thin-walled pinch pot -- Exercise two: a way of being with clay, a way of attention, a way of practice -- Moving off-center: six possible approaches instructions for making a "Body Mug" -- Closed, near-closed and necked forms: three approaches -- Making a large pinch pot -- Another approach to larger forms -- Putting together and adding on -- Texturing, surface enrichment and signs of source place bowls -- New ground - A demonstration of finding one's way with clay: yarn pots -- An exercise for the imagination: gesture pots -- What it I were to ask the question ... -- Pinching assignments -- II. The color of clay. An exploration of color: toward a new design -- Using multiple clay bodies -- Adding Oxides to clay -- Appliqueing the colored clay -- Wedging colored clays together -- Inlaying colored clays: an example -- Beloved bowls -- III. A method of firing: sawdust kilns -- IV. An album -- V. An aesthetic of humanness: notes, stories and quotes from my journal -- VI. Appendixes.