The Name

There’s something nostalgic about making pottery. The feel of squishy clay. A spinning pottery wheel. The singular focus. (Maybe even the scene between Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze.) And it doesn’t matter if you’ve thrown 10 times or 10,000 times, it’s always the same process. The transformation of earth into something beautiful. That’s how the name “Monarch Pottery” came to be.

Like monarch butterflies, which transform from a caterpillar into a chrysalis and eventually into a beautiful butterfly, pottery is made from mud that has been turned into clay and transformed into something beautiful.

As it is for the monarch butterfly, the process of making pottery is a long and tedious one. But the required elements are simple. This is what draws me to pottery. When it feels like our current culture is forcing us to move at faster and faster speeds, the process of transforming clay will always be the same - slow, intentional, mindful.