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| Ange Peter
has been searching for an attitude; a new or perhaps old value of integral beauty
in pottery. For her, it can best be described by the instructions of a Japanese
potter on how to sand the foot of a pot after the firing-- "not too smooth,
or it is without any feeling.
Don't leave it so rough that it will damage
the nice wooden table top, just do it so that the touch goes to the heart."
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Ange began learning pottery under Ray Meeker at Golden Bridge Pottery,
Pondicherry in 1991. In 1993, she went to Taiwan as an ESL teacher where she studied
Chinese and held pottery workshops. In 1996, she came back to Golden Bridge Pottery
to work as an assistant to Deborah Smith.
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by the sublime balance between uncompromising discipline, meticulousness and free
flow, she decided that she would explore the source of all this. It was to unlock
this mystery for herself that she decided to go to Japan. Her learning there is
now clearly evident in her work. The influence is both sublime and subtle and
yet it never disappears. It manifests itself in some form or another. It has become
an attitude... | |
