Los Trabajos del Alfarero

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Tengo una idea bastante clara de lo que quiero hacer. Más que pintar láminas o lienzos (canvas), quiero modelar y pintar mis propias piezas de alfarería (colgantes y otros abalorios, pisapapeles, brujitas de cocina, tiestos, tarros, llaveros, amuletos .. ya se me irán ocurriendo más cosas). A los Trabajos del Alfarero me llevó hacer mi propio pan en casa: ese momento de dar forma redondeada a la masa, girando girando girando .. de modo que quede una bola algo arremetida hacia abajo para que crezca mejor en el horno. Ahí decidí que quiero llevar mis manos de bruja un paso más allá, y hacer manualidades.
craft - oficio, trabajo, arte, maña, destreza
witchcraft - el Oficio de Bruja, el Trabajo de una Bruja, la Práctica del Arte
craft - create, make vtr manufacturar, loc adv hacer artesanías
Lo de modelar, tallar y esculpir arcilla de polímero ("arcilla polimérica"), y embellecerla con pintura acrílica viene de los trabajos de las artistas que más me gustan y sigo, y que venden sus artesanías en Etsy :)

"The simple beauty and joy of an ordinary day is the most precious gift of all. [...] None of this is extraordinary, at least not in the common understanding, but every moment of every day, every experience that touches my senses, every feeling that moves my soul is precious. I have always known this, that is why I chose to become a potter, why I live the life I do." Euan The Potter

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too:

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same:

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

- Read today in EuanThe Potter, a soothing discovery through Jackie Morris Artist. Love pottery. When I shape my homemade breads with my artisan hands (do-ers) as a kitchen witch, I feel like a potter .. so much, that I inwardly call this moment of the whole process: los Trabajos del Alfarero :) in honor of: los Trabajos del Herrero en Brujería del Cerco. - Brujita de Cocina, 12 de agosto de 2013.