"This is the first piece I made when my kitchen became my quarantine clay studio. It is a sculpture made by using a coil and pinch technique. Since I can’t glaze or fire, I gave the surface extra attention. All of the pieces I have made during quarantine have been decorated with slips or finished by burnishing. For this sculpture, I left the texture from the pinching movement of my hands and accentuated it with white porcelain slip." -Laurie Longtin