KAT HALL | 'Moon Phase – Dinner plate’ | Ceramic dish Monoprint I remember swimming across rivers

I remember swimming across rivers holding on to floating logs

Cairns in August 2010 to coincide with the 2010 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair

and local landscape imagery

filling up the lagoons and seagrass beds around the surrounding reefs of our island's beaches and mangroves

and modern fishing equipment has replaced the bamboo spears and turtle-shell fish hooks

KAT HALL | 'Moon Phase – Dinner plate’ | Ceramic dish Monoprint I remember swimming across riversIn a culture that strives for perfection, clay provides a perfect medium to let go of expectations and outcomes, and flow with the process. Thus allowing the work a voice of its own, with a result that could be considered imperfect, but which imbues each piece with a fresh, organic feel, reflecting the hand of the maker. Within the constant business of contemporary life, ceramics provides a pause a silence an opportunity to observe and reflect on what