Historically clay is the material that accompanies man for the longest time. When it came out of the caves and became a farmer, man needed not only shelter, but also pots to store food, water and seeds for the next harvest. Such pots need to be resistant to use, impervious to water and easy making. Those facilities were found in clay.

 

The oldest pot’s known were hand modelled in raw clay, just like it was taken from the earth and dried in the sun and wind. Even in this stage of his development and even before discovering writing literature or even a religion, man already had this craft and the pottery that he made then are still able to touch us with it’s expressive shapes. When he discovered fire and learned to make is pots hard lasting, when he invented weell and as a potter could add rhythm and movement to his concept of shape, became present every elements essential to the most abstract off all art forms.

 

This evolved from its humble origins until it became the most representative art of the most intellectual and sensitive specie that world has ever known. A Greek vessel is the prototype of a classic harmony. Then, in to the Orient, another civilization made pottery its most know and loved art and took it to a more delicate refinement than the Greeks. A Greek vessel is harmony, but a Chinese one, achieves dynamic harmony, not only a numeric relationship, but a living movement.