Baroness in the Studio

Writers have a pen name, why can’t potters have an alter ego, a clay-encrusted personality that exists mainly in the studio?

Baroness von Savage is a studio identity, that of a clay artist seeking models, designs, archetypes from the history of European ceramics. The Baroness is a restless soul, savagely impatient with the process of working in clay, of continually riding that knife-edge of failure from conception to the final fire. Clay has its own ideas of how it wants to behave. It’s that annoying toddler, scrambling off in another direction the minute one’s back turns away to consider a new idea.

And the Baroness is not a patient mother.