Really terrible picture of a very engaging South African potter at work during the demonstrations at the Borrowing Heritage symposium which I dropped in on this week as it was being held at the Farnham college. Not many speakers actually did talk about cross-fertilisation - though one bemoaned the loss of his own heritage (in Uganda) due to Westernisation. But I found all the shapes and techniques personally inspiring. These incised traditional patterns, for example, would work in glass too - though a great deal harder to achieve, because in pottery you can rub out your mistakes and grave the lines again.
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