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The relationship between women, warfare, and ceramic art is deeply rooted in global history. Rather than merely observing history, women have used pottery to document the battles they fought both on the frontlines and behind closed doors. The Lost Techniques of Jizhou Kiln and Empress Wu Zetian

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One potter, let’s call her Sarah (a divorcee who started pottery at 52), explains the mantra: “Every morning before I touch the clay, I say, ‘I am not my past. I am not my fear. I am the potter.’” The relationship between women, warfare, and ceramic art

In Ukraine, the war has turned clay into a medium for mourning. The artist known as has shifted her focus from sexuality to mortality. She models clay into bones and explosions, stripping the material of its practical value and filling it with the "topical meanings" of conflict. One potter, let’s call her Sarah (a divorcee

Pottery begins as soft earth, shaped by external hands. It is fragile before it is fired, representing youth, innocence, or the state of a person before experiencing hardship.

Both pottery and the human spirit can break, but "Kintsugi" (the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with gold) proves that there is beauty in the repair.