Clarice Allgood
I consider the pots I choose to make as tools. Some are tools of conviviality but most are objects that support moments of engaged solitude such as knitting, gardening, reading, and cooking. These pots inhabit the world I want to live in, inclusive of any and all activities which encourage self-reliance and connection. Studio practice entails forms of the perennially useful as well as re-purposing the once essential. Recycling motifs of indistinct eras and design elements of other handcrafts inspires my surface work which is then surrendered to the vagaries of atmospheric soda firing, muddling those patterns in unexpected ways. My hope is that these objects might lend delight, beauty and comfort in this new world of ours, once it is forgotten.
