If you are searching for you are likely a woman standing at the edge of a studio, terrified and intrigued. Here is your battle plan.

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So, to the woman reading this: Put your hands in the mud. Feel the centrifugal force of the wheel. Walk into the kiln of your current crisis. When you emerge, let the light hit your glazed surface.