“You can do very many things with [clay], push this way, and pull that, squeeze and roll and attach and pinch and hollow and pile. But you can’t do everything with it. You can only go so far, and then the clay resists. To know ourselves by our resistances.”
M.C. Richards, Centering
Meg Metzger
I attach a fair amount of responsibility to making things out of clay. The final object represents an irreversible transformation—from raw potential to vitrified permanence—and could be around for eons. So the question is always: what to create? How to make it worthy of that?
I work out of a studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn. When not making pottery, I edit documentary films. My spouse and I are raising two daughters, and we split our time between Brooklyn and Greece.