GENNADY DVORKIN
CERAMICS FIRED IN THE HEART OF TEL AVIV
POTTER'S WHEEL TECHNIQUE
Potter’s wheel is the greatest human invention. Accelerating the pottery making process it became irreplaceable technology for many centuries. Now the potter’s wheel supports human expression and creativity and might be compared with colors for painting or piano enabling to practice music. Working on potter’s wheel might be compared with meditation. Contacting, communicating with clay one creates a hand made harmony, which might be you harmony and your self-expression.
Operating potter’s wheel requires special skills. One need to master throwing, while a ball of clay is placed in the center of turntable, squeezing and pulling gently upwards and outwards into a hollow shape, drying and removing from the wheel. Another group of skills to experience is how to decorate the ware on the turntable.