Lump Of Clay

How does one make a pot? Well you start with a messy lump of clay. You throw it down on the potters wheel, get it nice and whet and start spinning. First off you must center the clay, to do so you need to keep your hands steady and apply pressureinward and down. Slowly remove your hands and see how balanced your once messy lump of clay is.
The next step is to make a hole in the center, take your thumband slowly push it down, almost reaching the bottom.
Now you can start pushing the edges out to make a wider bowel.
It may look a little better if it were taller, so to give it some height you can apply pressure inside and out pulling up on the clay as high as you wish.
You can give it shape by pushing in and pulling out in areas. The clay will begin to wear thin but if you are careful it will become a beautiful work of art.
For some finishing touches many artists will grab a tool and beging scratching designs into the clay, cutting grooves here and there and even adding on if they wish.

We are just like a lump of clay. Life takes us and throws us in this spinning world. People in our lives give us a moral center, they help give us a base to work up from. Often there is pressure to become something great but it is necessary.
Eventually the morals we grow up with become a part of us, they burry deep inside and define who we are.
Through life we have people who push us out of our comfort zones, helpus broaden our horizons and see the world in a whole new light. Others are there to lift us up to greater heights, when we fall down their hands are there to catch us and pull us back up again.
We are bound to have stress and pressure in our lives but it defines more of our personality and how we view the world. Little events begin to engrave upon us and add even more diversity to our personalities and make us truely beaustiful.
I am thankful for the hands who have shaped my life, one day I hope to become a beautiful work of art and truely embrace who I am.

-Chelsie Nielsen