Journal
ClinamenClinamen, in Lucretius, is the slight deviation of an atom falling through the void, occurring at no fixed time or place. Without it, nothing would collide, and nothing new could come to be.
“As the atoms fall through the void by their own weight, they deviate slightly from their course, at no fixed time and in no fixed place. Without this deviation, nothing would ever meet, and nothing would ever come into being.”
After Lucretius, De rerum natura, II
This is where I write in between the studio and the classroom: on porcelain, fragility, and the gestures through which something takes form. On making and teaching, and on what they reveal about one another. On processes that cannot be rushed, and questions that remain open.
Not a diary. Not a tutorial. A letter once a month.
The letters live on Substack and arrive by email.
After Two Years of Silence
Coming soon →“The last letter I sent went out at the end of a year that was about to break in half, though I did not know it yet.”