"It is because of this obsessive search for my own language of expression that I found
myself playing with clay. Perhaps as a blessing, I didn't have education in ceramics,
so I only saw clay as a material that needed to be experienced.
I couldn't stop a series of pieces from coming in and I imagined them standing alone,
in the emptiness, just to look at. It's like playing a pipe organ for the first time.
You have to listen to the instrument to feel its power.
I have kept this way of working obediently ever since, and today when all I do
is clay related, I'm governed by these imperfect objects that only slightly I imagine
when I start to work. I become impaired with these forms that I later glaze with
the expressive enthusiasm that characterize my pieces.
The notion of my work being something that I have to actively achieve,
has never been my in my language. I let the clay very much do the talk."
Jojo Corväiá
