Sara Schurr Now is all there is
 Early in July 2019, I stumbled across a great Youtube video on how to build a hard slab box. I couldn't find anyone in the studio to teach me so I set about following the instructions on the videos (there were 6 of them) to make what I ended up calling my Zen box. Each side makes up one word in the message: Now Is All There Is.

Zen box

Zen box

Zen box

Zen box

Zen box

And instead of signing it Sara, it is signed No One.

No One

This was so much fun (though it took a week to build and many many hours after that to glaze it) that I had to make another. This time I made a textured unlidded box out of red clay for my husband Walter.

Red clay box

The first one collasped but the second try it came out okay.

And this led to the luminaria project which is based on the same box technique just taken to a new level.

luminaria