Central Park Pinch Pot

This pinch pot incorporates ground up Manhattan Schist that I collected from Central Park, which I then folded into clay, fired, and glazed. The goal of this piece is to re-digest and commemorate some of my rock collection, thereby making the physical and human connection to earth's history more vivid and tangible. I am connecting the creative process to the earth's geologic process: the folding in of rocks into clay, the slow eroding and reworking with my fingers, and the firing in the kiln.