I make pottery — mainly small things, lots of mugs, sometimes bowls — under the name Dead Garden Studio.
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The ethos of Dead Garden is to be creatively adventurous and embrace the limitations of working in a garage studio. Handmade processes are inherently imperfect and therein lies the magic.
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I embrace the wabi-sabi approach of accepting each piece as it happens to be. Each piece is hand painted and unique.