#rest is resistence

Our predecessor Waavy Studio set the blueprint in our beautiful space for teaching others and finding joy despite everyday challenges — and in that fashion, we try to embody the communal spirit that she brought to our beautiful bungalow before she departed across the pond to Spain.

We toyed with the idea of teaching classes again, and many former students of Waavy Studio asked us on multiple occasions if we’d open up again to the public. We’d love to do that once we’re accustomed to it ourselves (as we are mostly novices and even newer to teaching!).

That’s why it was so exciting to have our first class this past weekend with a dear friend of ours and her mother. We set the stage, intentions, and good vibes for a beautiful evening of clay crafting.

Sara, who also goes by Sarita, giving a demo on the wheel!

By the end of it, we had several beautiful pieces. At once point, both of their pieces flew off the wheel and smacked together in the middle. I wasn’t there to witness it, but Sara showed me how they decided to mesh together the two smushed pieces into an adorable puzzle-piece sculpture.

Clay is quasi-living—it has “memory” and follows the shape of your hands. In the lifespan of a clay blob, it can either become a beautiful piece of artwork… or maybe it ends up being another folded mess on the wheel. But discarded clay can rebirth through a process of rehydrating and re-wedging it into its former malleable shape.

Recently, we took on the challenge of reclaiming all our used clay on a beautiful sunny day.

We mashed up the clay, preparing it for its new life.

Mia spread the clay across a canvas board, evenly distributing it. She signed a heart shape and gave good intentions for the reborn clay to continue helping us continue our ceramics journey.

Reclaiming takes time. It takes energy and effort to reshape, remold, and sometimes it looks different. Whether it’s reclaiming clay or reclaiming your life’s story, anything will take love, compassion, and persistence.

It’s not a secret nor philosophically novel, but we gift ourselves these reminders as we push towards our dreams and goals. In a world that’s pushed by profit and productivity, it can seem like a waste of time to indulge in the stillness. That’s something we’re always trying to unlearn in our studio—to give ourselves grace to simply live.