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“Modelling involves a lot of work, it means making and breaking, starting all over again until I reach the desired curve, angle, smile, frown, detail. It does not require tools or machinery or expensive materials, only inspiration, clay and a woodstick. Sounds easy. Every piece I model gets a little bit of myself in it, there is a transfer of warmth and energy when I work the hard clay into soft clay by hand, we communicate and at some subconscious level, it tells me if I’m on the right path or not. Anyway, I consider it complete only when I remove it from the oven; that is the final step, the test all ceramists fear (will it crack?). The idea goes a long, meandered way until it reaches the final stage, gets through numerous transformations and changes of shape and matter that involve science, not only craft, but it brings me the utmost satisfaction. And it makes other people happy.”

Extract from Andrei Pandea autobiography. Read More