
Plant
in a rocky desert
and hope
Once upon a time,
a minister's daughter from the land of Edelweiss fell in love with a tiny hamlet called Tunis in the oasis of Fayoum.
There was nothing.
Only three palm trees, an azure lake, and an expansive big sky.
That is why she fell in love.
And there, she built her home-atelier.
"Here I will return one day, and stay."
Years later, the Woman and her companion, the Man, and their Son and Daughter, brought their most precious possessions from the land of Edelweiss—their mastery and their art of potterymaking, their pioneering spirit and hope, to what was then a middle-of-nowhere in the desert of Egypt.
There was nothing.
Only a few villagers who farmed and fished.
No running water.
No electricity.
And certainly no fancy art schools.
Misadventures, builds, rebuilds, repairs and more repairs, trials and errors, laughing villagers and tragicomedies.
But slowly, home, atelier, kick wheels, kiln, shelves, water, garden and all that was needed, came into being.
"Plant in a rocky desert and hope."
From nothing came everything.
From no plan was born a very big story that you are now about to discover.

Pottery
is of the earth...

The Woman saw both beauty and poverty in the village.
The Children worked in the fields and tended to animals.
Sometimes, she saw that they made toys, dolls, tractors, and very strange and beautiful animals from mud gathered from the streams.
Knowing that all children possessed art inside themselves, an idea came to the Woman: channel their creativity and give life to their art through what she loved and what she can give—the joy of making, shaping, and giving form to the earth!
"Pottery is of the earth, hence it is close to these people. It touches them because it is familiar to them, as breadmaking is."
Although she never dreamt of being a teacher, she did dream of a pottery school where the Children's creativity can be unleashed and set free.





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