Looking for Someone?

Rough clay slab with two circular ring impressions and an irregular opening resembling a face

I see faces everywhere.

In two holes in a stone. A knot in a piece of wood. Two halves of an onion on a chopping board.

Once you see it, it is difficult to unsee it.

Two red onion halves arranged as eyes above a green pepper mouth on a dark green chopping board

During a ceramics workshop, we realised the maker’s new wedding rings had disappeared. We lifted the clay. Look who turned up.

Person holding a rough clay slab in front of their face, with two circular ring impressions and an opening forming a face

I like how little it takes for an object to acquire a character. Curious, slightly annoyed, or as if it knows something we don’t.

Silver-coloured face ring held between pink lips, with blue and reddish stones forming facial features

The object is the same. Only the way we see it has changed.

Maybe we are not always looking for faces.

Maybe we are looking for someone.

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