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precision. They are all made at Art In The Forest, a thriving ceramics centre in the Constantia forest, Cape Town under the mentorship of award-winning ceramicist Anthony Shapiro. Maweni explains that he enjoys the possibilities that clay offers and the thought that he can take a block of clay and create something ornamental and functional for a home. However, sometimes the clay has a mind of its own. Work in the studio can be a slow process. "You have to be patient, especially when you work with wet clay. Coiling can take such a long time, and then it still won't do what you want it to and it's frustrating. Sometimes I get to a point where I want to quit this whole bloody thing and go do graphic design. But I have to sit back, calm down, and let it go the way it wants. You guide it, but you have to control your emotions." Recently Maweni has been experimenting with naked raku, a method of glazing where sawdust is added to the kiln and the smoke it creates strips the glaze, colouring the bare clay underneath. The process and its resulting smoke patterns are unpredictable. Maweni studied ceramic design at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in 2002. After he finished his degree, he taught women in the rural communities of the Transkei how to work artistically with clay. When he moved to Cape Town in 2006 he got a job with the Light from Africa Foundation at Art … >

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