Coil building a bread bowl

"To work with clay is to be in touch with the taproot of life.'' ~Shoji Hamada

There is this feeling of connection when working with clay simply.  The rhythm of rolling out clay, pressing it, building little by little, pinching, paddling---it fills a day, a year, a life. It is just a bowl, but a bowl with life rolled into it. It is the gift clay gives to me.