Tectonic Movements

In my generation, it wasn’t openly acknowledged that every emotion can be valuable information. No one taught us how to manage them properly. Today, I’m clearing the way for them, tentatively giving them an outlet. I’m learning. The hardest thing is anger, which, after all, most of us show quite easily. In my case, it froze in childhood. Slowly, with great effort, I am making space for it. I feel tremors in the small area between my eyebrows – the place known as the ‘third eye’. I also detect micro-tremors in my mother Halina and my daughter Stefania.

With respect for the material, I recreated the pattern of skin folding on a forehead when we get angry. I shaped the lump of clay in this short time when the mass wa still malleable and allowed me to do so. As soon as it began to harden, I stopped the process. We agreed to respect each other’s boundaries. We don’t push. I then set the object at a high temperature. Because anger is heat.

Tectonic movements are movements of the Earth’s surface caused by processes taking place within it.