To be your best in pottery is to accept the broken pieces. Every potter has a graveyard of shattered mugs and cracked bowls. The “best” potter is not the one who never fails. It is the one who takes the shards and turns them into mosaic tiles (Kintsugi). It is the one who looks at a collapsed vase and laughs, then wedges it back into a new lump of potential.
When the pot collapses under your hands, do not sigh. Smile. You are not failing. You are fighting the female war. And because you are pottery—fluid, strong, fire-forged—you are already the best. female war i am pottery best
Stop watching YouTube tutorials. Analysis paralysis is the enemy of the female war. Go to a local studio. Put your hands in a bag of reclaim clay. Squeeze it. Smell the rot (it smells like a riverbed). This is the mud of your becoming. To be your best in pottery is to accept the broken pieces