Primitive pottery is simultaneously ancient and fresh.
It evinces the presence, if not the passage of eons, while exhibiting traces of the maker's hands and the user's touch. A primitive spirit permits a special poetic melding of the past with the future. Pottery's unique language is ideally suited to such a juxtaposition. It is, however, an easily garbled tongue. How the co-mingling of past, present and future is achieved is perhaps the most critical and a perennial issue in the making and assessing of pottery.