Wild practice is the desire to know the world around us through direct experience, mediated by one’s senses, one’s body. Discovering the clay around us, touching it, feeling it, means rediscovering our primordial connection with the Earth and its transformations, rocks and elements.
Wild practice is paying attention and taking action. Walking, observing, collecting, trying, knowing. Relying on one’s senses and intuition is an act of great freedom. Making pottery as a wild practice requires that knowledge be transmitted in order to regain that trust in the senses and the body that has always belonged to us.
Clay is everywhere: under our feet, near rivers and up hills . However, one must have some basics to navigate the search and learn how to recognize it. Finding and using local clays is and ancient practice and knowledge that must be passed down.