“Something has changed … like when you fall in love and there is just this nice feeling, something beautiful … appreciation of life. It opens this moment when we say “yes” to this opening … Surely I have the memory, but I rarely visit this place. It provided space for this to be.    … For couples that have been long time together, it can be scary, since you are afraid that this is no longer there. And we are rarely together without any pragmatism involved – that it is “about nothing”, no practical theme, no to-do, to-arrange, to-agree-upon. It was nice to remember this feeling with him.

There is also this that we met through material – through mother Earth – it was like the first contact, as if you don’t know the person.  …. When we were trying to pick the little cones, I felt a strong charge in our fingers – I felt I was learning a lot about her “fingers”, about the attitude. … And the tasks also provided the pleasure of figuring out her understanding of the rule. I felt I was offering my understanding, like: “I understood your understanding, or whether you agreed with mine”. Of course, you also try to “verbalize” through movement, but there were things beyond verbal – just understanding the energy.

The gravity, the weight of the clay also challenged us: there comes this question of who holds it (especially when it becomes heavy). At first I felt like it’s somehow my duty as a man to hold it, but I didn’t really feel like it. But eventually we managed to distribute this … responsibility?

I also notices how those little cones can be deceptive. You soon realize that it’s not so easy to pick them, and what is more, the more you go on, you think “oh, now I already know it”, but actually it doesn’t get any easier with the next/last ones. Each pick demands its own here-and-now, figuring out live…  It triggered the question of where fun comes from … And I believe it comes from the creation itself.

I was struggling with this “competition” part. I don’t like competitive situations, I don’t want to compete. So, it was for me to observe how do I cope with this competitive situation. … Competition is actually much more fun when it’s not about winning or losing, but about cooperation: finding out what is better for this situation.”