Previous episode: https://nathjy.travel.blog/2020/12/05/from-the-atlas-clay-to-the-potters-work/

« One day, one elsewhere » ended with the deconfinement in France. Let’s now give way to  » One day, one discovery  » : a journey towards more light and beautiful people for sunshine in 2021 ! Open door to local crafts! D-26.

Once the work is finished, to go out to prepare the oven. To use the thorns collected in the desert by the women.

Not to use too much or too little.

Meanwhile, to wander around the potter’s yard and discover the wonders that lie here and there.

To marvel at the art of moving from clay to pottery.

To move closer to the fire to draw some heat from it. The night has fallen and the cold is quickly invading the desert.

Eyes caught in the flames, the only light in the dark, to be careful not to stumble.

To admire the potter who lovingly watches over his works.

To be seized by the softness of the gaze.

To dive your eyes into the bottom of the oven and enjoy the work of the fire on the molten earth.

To let the work get done. Go back to the warmth, start a new job.

To take the time to tell each other about life here.

Then happy with the work done, take out the djembes, to welcome the cousins and friends and start singing. To taste all together the batbouts coated with olive oil and tell each other that the world is really extraordinary.

When the eyes begin to sting with smoke and tiredness, we leave each other hoping to see each other again next year and spend even more wonderful moments together.

To take a last look at the potter’s house, to revel in the moon that now watches over the sleeping palm grove.

Back in Paris, to enjoy…

… by day …

… as at night the potter’s works.

… moving testimonials of such extravagant moments spent together…

To say again that we have been very lucky to meet on several occasions such craftsmen, troubadours of the future, enchanters of the days and nights, who erase with a potter’s knife the greyness of everyday life.

Par Nathalie

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