For the past one year, Metta has spent more time developing her inner resilience through meditation practice and voluntary act. Focusing mainly on virtues towards health, happiness and gratefulness instead of vanity. Its no longer about the ideal world - it is about taking up the chances, being courageous, enduring fear, make it positive; be tolerant, hopeful and fruitful to one another.
Mosaic 17 has been a miraculous journey. As she began to be more aware about what her surroundings has provided her - auspiciously she is accepting it and translating it into blessings for each other. Once every single of our cells turns into a compassionate, loving and kind energy, life starts to unfold its miracles to us.
she carried her graphic practice to adapt with the ceramics realm through a picture that Metta merely remember drawing; she only recalled the joy and peace she had every time she drew it. As this is the first time for everything with her and ceramics, every single thing was exciting to her. Overwhelmed, she decided to do what's familiar to her and applied that to clay.
Had a picture in mind, she wanted to create a piece that is perfect for each other. A combination that creates the perfect illusion of infinity, therefore she made each mosaic piece with exact shape and arrangement. Pursuing this made her learn to pay more attention on planning the drawings and materials, determination to keep on producing the consistent piece and archiving the process through sketches, photography and film.
With the ideal and expectation that she impose on Mosaic 15. Metta strives to pursue the consistency and flatness on her slabs which was a challenging tasks in Anagama. As she wanted to fabricate an almost machine-like piece through a soulful natural mediums – Knowing that, Hillary shared to her that, " ... once your piece gets into the kiln and got fired, you have to let go of all your self and mind." Metta loved the philosophy, until the piece is unloaded from the kiln and everyone is surprised how unexpected the expectation was, it came out very much as expected but unexpected in a way for Metta, because everything, again, is unknown to her.
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