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man’s life is an exchange of feelings and emotions. That’s why I consider
a craftman-artist as a sort of actor or wizard who can excite sensations
and whose aim is to stimulate the spectator to carry on the performance,
even without the leading man. So I thought of meeting people in streets
and squares and letting them discover and experimenting with some particular
techniques. The very first step in pottery is the manipulation of clay
which, in skilled hand, is eventually turned into an object. The sequence
clay-manipulation-shape turns a world of ideas into a world of objects.
Clay is moulded and modelled thanks to a manual ability which dates
back to our ancestral culture. Subsequently colours are used which add
the charm of free expression through the use of brush-strokes, spots,
sprinkling and enamels. The process becomes a mere liberating game,
a sensory fulfilment. The real enjoyment does not lie in the final result
but in the process itself, and in playing an active part in it.
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