My Story

When I decided to start all over again and study ceramics, I didn’t know the wonderful gift that this path held in store. My reasons for pursuing ceramics were many: artistic drive, a love for learning, the thrill of something new… Gradually, I found myself absorbed, obsessed, passionate like I had never been before. This new passion has been like a fountain of youth. Life suddenly tastes good. The satisfaction of seeing that we can still learn new things, the joy of refining a gesture that we repeated so many times, a sense of wonder at the wealth of techniques that remain to be discovered…

But above all, I received a gift that I had sought for ages and which I thought was beyond my reach. With ceramics, without knowing it, I discovered the joy of being in the present moment. When I turn, when I shape, my hands and my mind are completely focused on what I’m doing. I enter into this magical dialogue with the earth. I push, she widens. I pull, she expands. I press, she wrinkles. Here I am, so absorbed in this dialogue that I forget everything else. I lift my head and it is empty, and it is then that I realize I have just achieved what I failed to achieve through meditation: to be fully in the present moment.