{"id":5126,"date":"2023-02-02T10:12:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:07:10","slug":"potters-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/02\/potters-market\/","title":{"rendered":"The Auroville International Potters Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The sixth edition of the Auroville International Potters Market was held in the Auroville Visitors Centre between January 26th and 28th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South India\u2019s Coromandel coast has long been known for its terracotta sacred idols and large horse statues adorning the land\u2019s many temples. Local excavations are continuing to unearth beautiful centuries-old funerary urns bearing witness to the historic refinement of south India\u2019s society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1970, a Stanford-educated, Japanese-trained studio ceramist named Deborah Smith was drawn to Pondicherry\u2019s Sri Aurobindo Ashram, where she introduced glazed stoneware techniques from Japan. Her friend Ray Meeker, having studied architecture in addition to ceramics, complemented Deborah\u2019s skills with his expertise in building kilns (pottery furnaces) and residential domes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3879.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5152\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3879.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=5152\" class=\"wp-image-5152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3879.jpg 800w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3879-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3879-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3879-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3879-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3942.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5153\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3942.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=5153\" class=\"wp-image-5153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3942.jpg 800w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3942-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3942-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3942-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3942-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A ceramic set by Mantra Pottery, Auroville<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3890.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5151\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3890.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=5151\" class=\"wp-image-5151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3890.jpg 800w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3890-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3890-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3890-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3890-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The following year, <a href=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/23\/gallery-of-the-mothers-pictures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Mother<\/a> offered the duo a piece of land on the outskirts of Pondicherry to start their studio, whose name \u2013 Golden Bridge \u2013 came directly from Sri Aurobindo\u2019s epic poem, Savitri. With a ceramics display in the Ashram exhibition hall in 1974, the studio\u2019s reputation grew, and many potters soon came to stay for internships. \u201cPondicherry pottery\u201d would come to be a general term synonymous with high quality ceramics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among many other visiting potters, in 1988 Golden Bridge Pottery hosted master potter Sardar Gurcharan Singh, who had trained in Japan, Korea and China, and had launched a ceramics renaissance in 1950\u2019s Delhi. Singh became a major influence on Pondicherry and Auroville potters, remaining a point of reference to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray and Deborah\u2019s first student to take the art into Auroville was <a href=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/03\/work-in-auroville-angad-from-mantra-pottery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Angad Vohra<\/a>, who, having apprenticed at Golden Bridge in 1975-79, began Shilpika studios in Auroville with Michel Hutin. Many smaller studios would follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"914\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Adil-bangalore-mural-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5148\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=5148\" class=\"wp-image-5148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Adil-bangalore-mural-2.jpg 656w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Adil-bangalore-mural-2-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Adil-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5140\" class=\"wp-image-5140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Adil-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Adil-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Adil.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Adil with some of his creations<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"830\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Adil_Art.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5160\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Adil_Art.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=5160\" class=\"wp-image-5160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Adil_Art.jpg 608w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Adil_Art-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Space to Breathe<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/30\/work-in-auroville-adil-writer-from-mandala-pottery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adil<\/a> heads one of Auroville\u2019s largest pottery studios, Mandala Pottery \u2013 and has been doing ceramics for 25 years. A native of Bombay and a master\u2019s graduate in architecture from Houston, he came to Golden Bridge Pottery for a seven month course, and after 2\u00bd years training, decided to move to Auroville, where he has been working at Mandala studio since 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same clay can become different types of ceramics, he explains. For centuries, the red clay present in Auroville has been fired at a low temperature to create terracotta, a clay which is useful for holding water and keeping it cool, as well as for creating the votive statuettes found in Tamil Nadu\u2019s temples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Tent.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5157\" width=\"545\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Tent.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Tent-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMost Auroville artists create works of stoneware clay, requiring a higher firing temperature\u201d, he says, \u201cStoneware is called so because it supposedly gets as hard as stone. It is not porous and doesn\u2019t leak.\u201d Adil enjoys making both functional tableware, and sculptural work which is sold at art exhibitions. He also creates murals and large canvases with unfired clay, a technique he\u2019s developed over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a blessing to be in Auroville\u201d, he says. \u201cThe first thing that most artists notice, whether they come here from around the world or elsewhere in the country, is the amount of space we have. You can actually breathe here, we are not stuck in a small room in a city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters2.jpg 950w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Staying in touch with the process<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Working at one of South India\u2019s busiest handmade ceramic studios, Adil is keenly aware of the importance of keeping things small: \u201cYou have ceramic industries churning out machine-made tableware. In our studio, everything is done by hand; we make our own clays and glazes instead of buying them from outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the flow of orders coming in, one can very easily expand the studio and become bigger \u2013 but then you would lose touch with the clay and start playing manager. I still want to be in touch with what I\u2019m making. We are a group of 9, and don\u2019t want to get bigger than that. It\u2019s a conscious effort to stay small.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"809\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5145\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=5145\" class=\"wp-image-5145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters1.jpg 809w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters1-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters1-768x902.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters5-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5146\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters5.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=5146\" class=\"wp-image-5146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters5-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters5.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters6.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5147\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters6.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=5147\" class=\"wp-image-5147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters6.jpg 675w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Potters6-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Striving for Perfection<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cArt, as we endeavour towards perfection, is one with religion, and this fact is better recognized in the East. Perfection is more like the state prior to the expulsion from the Garden of Eden than the mere opposite to imperfection.\u201d<\/p><cite>Bernard Leach, British studio potter<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The sense of the sacred, present throughout India, is a major inspiration for Sabrina, who has assisted in organizing the Auroville International Potters Market since its first edition, and currently creates and teaches pottery at <a href=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/15\/kalabhumi-land-of-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kalabhumi<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A native of Chennai, Sabrina has been doing pottery since age 8, and came to Auroville on several school trips through high school. Here she had the chance to be inspired by and gain experience from different Auroville units. When a potter at <a href=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/04\/work-in-aurovillle-krishna-mckenzie-from-solitude-farm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Solitude Farm<\/a> asked for volunteers to try the wheel, her hand went up: \u201cThat was the pivotal moment, and at 16, I knew I wanted to live in Auroville.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"982\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/The-Witness-Sabrina.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/The-Witness-Sabrina.jpg 982w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/The-Witness-Sabrina-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/The-Witness-Sabrina-768x542.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 982px) 100vw, 982px\" \/><figcaption>Sabrina\u2019s installation, The Witness. Material: Terracotta and steel. Size: 6 ft x 4 ft<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Since coming here in 2013, she notices a difference in the sense of time: \u201cIn the city, it\u2019s like you\u2019re living in one dimension, on the surface level of schedules, traffic, work or college. It\u2019s easy to become anonymous. Once you\u2019ve done your work day you go back home to your own space, and it\u2019s easy to push things under the carpet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn Auroville there is another dimension that comes into play. There is more pressure here to do inner work on an everyday level. If an issue comes up you have to address it, because it will keep coming back at you with much more force than it would in the city. The beauty of Auroville is, avenues open up at certain points, the tools become available to you when you are ready or open to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Clay-Station-Children.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5142\" width=\"531\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Clay-Station-Children.jpg 950w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Clay-Station-Children-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Clay-Station-Children-768x825.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><figcaption>Clay station for children, sixth Auroville International Potters Market<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabrina is fascinated with geology, which provides a different lens to look at the work: \u201cThere\u2019s a force and a dynamism behind earth formation. Plates shift, rocks get pushed up and it\u2019s quite violent. Clay is formed over years and years of erosion when particles get deposited in lakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t sense it in our normal human lifespan, but I find it amazing that we are compressing millions of years of earth formation into a 15 hour firing \u2013 taking it from raw clay to a vitrified glazed pot. There\u2019s a little bit of alchemy to that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Children.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5141\" width=\"372\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Children.jpg 576w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Children-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gift from the Fire<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Supriya is the curator of \u2018Clay in Touch\u2019, a group exhibition of 41 ceramists\u2019 artistic creations which took place as part of the Potters Market on the first floor of the Visitors Centre. The exhibition brought together artists working in earthenware, stoneware and porcelain, and employing a range of techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After losing her studio in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, she embarked on the path of ikebana \u2013 Japanese flower arrangements. Studying in Japan, she received a gago (art name): Kairen, meaning \u2018gentle harmony\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-Ikebana-1-700x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5143\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-Ikebana-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=5143\" class=\"wp-image-5143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-Ikebana-1-700x1024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-Ikebana-1-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-Ikebana-1-768x1123.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-Ikebana-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5138\" class=\"wp-image-5138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya.jpg 640w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Supriya and her ikebana works<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-Ikebana-2-702x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5144\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-Ikebana-2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=5144\" class=\"wp-image-5144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-Ikebana-2-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-Ikebana-2-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-Ikebana-2-768x1120.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Supriya-Ikebana-2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She tries to combine Golden Bridge\u2019s planned approach, with a more spontaneous one she learned from Japanese-trained UK ceramic sculptor Sandy Brown, on a Charles Wallace India Trust scholarship. \u201cOne is one\u2019s own mystery,\u201d she says. \u201cThe form happens, and then I try to work on it consciously to finish it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once or twice a year, she uses a traditional Japanese Anagama (\u2018cave\u2019) kiln to fire up her pottery. This technique, where works are kept in the fire for 70 hours, is new to India and is a team effort, requiring people to attend to the kiln around the clock. The result is high quality stoneware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery piece of work is a gift from the fire. The fire completes the work \u2013 it can make it or break it. 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