If you’ve been following my posts this year, you might have noticed a recurring theme: mud. I began the year drawing it, then helping people get unstuck from it, and now I’m ending the year by quite literally turning it into marble.
Mud, Mind & Material is an in-person workshop exploring Hikaru Dorodango.
Dorodango is the Japanese artform of transforming simple mud dumplings into a polished sphere that shines like marble. It’s a slow, mindful process that invites stillness, patience and presence, and becomes the latest Brief Pause offering at KHANDID.STUDIO.
I’ll be collaborating with Rescued Clay, a beautiful regenerative project that collects discarded clay from construction sites and returns it to artists and communities to be shaped into new forms and uses.
Together, we’ll work with this reclaimed clay to form our own Dorodango.
If you come along to the Saturday session, you’ll also learn how to hand-process clay straight from the ground into usable material.
Both workshops take place at Minerva Works, Park Royal, London (NW10 6HJ).
🟤 Evening Workshop: Thursday 20 November, 6:30–8:30pm
🟤 Saturday Workshop: Saturday 22 November, 10am–1pm
It’s a simple, grounding way to close the year. A reminder that transformation can come from the most ordinary materials, if we just slow down long enough to listen.
Come play with us!
🎟️ Book your place https://lnkd.in/e9R5-hBR
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Image: an unpolished Dorodangol I made on Simon Lamb recent WildKin (Earth) retreat, with earth borrowed from land.
