ANAGAMA

FROM TIME TO TIME MY POTS ARE WOODFIRED IN SCOTLAND IN NANCY FULLERS EVOCATIVE ANAGAMA KILN - BUILT WITH A GRANITE BEDROCK FOUNDATION AND WOMB LIKE CHAMBER , COVERED IN CLAY, SAND AND EARTH. SURROUNDED BY TREES & WILDLIFE , THE FIRING IS BEAUTIFULLY VUNERABLE TO THE ELEMENTS, TO THE SEASONAL CYCLES.

In this still, contemplative process, heat rises slowly. Ash drifts through the chamber, gently kissing the glowing clay. The fire becomes a living body — wild, nocturnal, and breathing — feeding on oxygen and trees, exhaling through small holes that glow in the darkness.

Each firing feels like a dialogue with nature: the alchemy of earth, air, fire, and water. Vessels are laid within this earthen womb — formed from clays and stones gathered from places I hold sacred. Their surfaces carry the essence of stream banks, living woodlands, and the biosphere itself — layered like memory, brushed with moss, touched by the quiet intelligence of the land.

My materials — indigenous stones, crystalline glimmers, fossil-rich clays — are ancient witnesses.

Millions of years later, they meet fire again through living artist hands. In this act, I feel part of an ongoing metamorphosis — the heart and hand as one, pulsing to the rhythm of the earth.

It is here, in this elemental union, that pure alchemy happens — a surrender to agni, to transformation, to the mystery of creation.