our evolution seems to have happened mostly in our heads,
through our modes of engagement with the world,
and so manifests itself in this world around us

shapes us as we shape

my primary media are clay and glaze

clay

smell it wet
dark

a hill of clay smelling like that
or Ovid's metamorphosis

has a hot smell too
when something in it vaporises
and something else manifests
into something like permanence
archaeologists will touch

like a cognitive archaeologist,
you can make an object a map to a particular mode of engagement with the world