Madeleine Morris

There is also a nice little linguistic parapraxis - that kalima and 'clima' sound very similar. The hotter and dryer it gets in this part of the world, the more kalimas we will have, and the more people will migrate because of climate change.

So I'm playing with a lot of ideas, historically, sociologically, and meteorologically. Which ultimately, speaks to the heart of the art of ceramics.

Unlike when I was younger, I don't feel the same need to bring logic into this. #ceramics #pottery

Similarly, while people tend to dread the arrival of the Kalima here, it literally colours the landscape, it colours the clay here. Andalucia would not be itself without Kalimas.

I am really drawn to this as a metaphor for migration.

Anyway, I'm rambling. #ceramics #pottery

Now that I have gained some small proficiency at throwing on the wheel, I have been thinking conceptually, about what I would like to express with #ceramics I want to do something with the idea of uninvited arrivals. My father's side of the family are Sephardic Jews. They arrived here as migrants from Morocco during the Al-Andalus period.

There has always been great ambivalence about this period here. And yet, the impact of this period became part of what defines Andalucia. #Pottery

In Andalucia we get these dust storms up from the Sahara, called a Calima or Kalima, which deposit huge amounts of extremely fine sand onto everything. It coats cars and stains the sides of buildings.

When I was sweeping up on the roof the other day, I found a little corner with a pile of it. It's been there sitting there since our last kalima. So I mixed it in with some ball clay, to see if I could make some terra sig out of it. #ceramics #pottery

Good morning! It’s Sunday and still nice and cool, and I’m playing with terra sigillata #ceramics #pottery

If you are white, this podcast is an outstanding look at how ingrained the myth of ‘the Police’ is in our consciousness.

And while there are certainly somewhat better social contracts between the police and the citizenry in some parts of the world, the author's critiques are still powerful.

#Policing

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ordinary-unhappiness/id1680330412?i=1000775433558