Hayne Bayless

Ivoryton, CT

he/him

In an emergency, where you can only save one ceramic object- what piece do you rescue and why?

Yeah, I've run that scenario many times and so far haven't gotten any closer to an answer.

In an alternate life, what would you be doing?

Perhaps a gardener who makes paper on the side, but it's really hard to imagine doing anything else but potting.

Why Clay?

I love what spawns in the friction between what I'd like the stuff to do and what it would rather do. The unintended result is often misread as a mistake and so dismissed, but it's one of the most fertile sources of new ideas. The trick is not to fool with clay's inherent desire to be expressive. It will offer – and sometimes impose – its own ideas about new forms and ways to work.