
Burnishing is about pottery and other slow pursuits; walking, reading, wondering at stuff, staring at trees - that kind of thing.
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Back in the mists of time (early 2000s) I used to knit a lot. A LOT. I have the RSI and drawers full of stashed yarn1 to prove it. I stopped for a while partly becasue the boy grew up and I had no more karate lessons, drum lessons, etc to p...
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This touches on my ‘artistic process’ which is a thing I always put in inverted commas for some reason. Maybe becasue it doesn’t feel like a process-process1, but more like a thing that…just happens.
I spend a lot of time up on the...
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It’s been a while, 2025 was a bit much, I hope to be here more in 2026.
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I have been sort of hibernating, hiding in my house with occasiona...
I have changed my substack’s name in case you’re wondering who this is in your inbox. From ‘A Wandering Way’ to ‘Burnishing’.
Friday saw me attempting to take photographs of my pottery. I haven’t done this for a while and I’ve made a few...
My brain is too full. Do you know what I mean?
Full of my own stuff, full of the absolute shit shows (understatement) currently happening in various parts of the world. Too full to go into the studio make any kind of pot - I know this beca...
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