The poem is about my practice in relation to the gallery context with an argument presented imagining a gallery which accords with my understanding of ceramic.

At the beginning of the poem I am reasoned with by others who treat ceramics and their making practice, I am being reminded of the fragility of what we are making.

I use the conversational attitude to express my familiarity with these people, the first part of the poem is meant to show ceramic community.

I then express my desire to be exhibited in galleries, I want to be successful exhibiting but I don’t want my work to become untouchable literally and without the air of prestige(untouchable could be seen as meaning prestige). To reach each simple viewer becoming their “comrades” is the community inspired aspect of this exhibition.

I use the image of fantasy and religion to explain how one may experience my work, they see the big pieces such as the “Gods, Goliaths” and the “charms” which represent smaller items they can hold in their hand such as the quickly recognisable crucifix one may carry.

The benefit of providing miniatures would be that the viewer would be able to feel the vast object while leaving it at arms length. Therefore the viewer is both accepting that they must respect the object as art while being able hold it like a simple piece of ceramics.

In the last part I highlight the texture of the ceramic as the primary sense experienced once holding it, this is the part which they truly cannot experience when they see the object displayed at arms length on a plinth. I personally imagine these miniatures as segments of the existing texture on the piece, like a sample sheet.

I finish the poem using nature as a metaphor for the feeling of interacting with the works in this vague way. this communicates that I feel this interaction with ceramic is not only nice but natural. As ceramicists I think we have an intuition to feel pieces, though many ceramicists understand that clay is delicate I think that leaving a piece in a well dusted glass cabinet puts it into a “untouchable, celebrity piece” context .