By Nicolas Bard
The camera of “where there is Greece” entered a traditional pottery workshop in Vathi, Sifnos, which now counts 150 years of life, and has shown us that even today this special art is being maintained, passing from generation to generation.
Most workshops, as Mr. Antonis tells us, were built near the sea to facilitate transport. There were not many means available to carry the ceramics then, except their hands! Of the 63 workshops that the island once had, today there are only 9 left. Some are lucky and working with their children, and some are left alone…
The locals say food has a different taste when cooked in the clay of their place. Like the traditional chickpeas, which is silenced all night in a traditional wood -fired oven. Sifnos, after all, has a long tradition in the cookware.
For many years, residents, after not having much potential on the anhydrous island land, realized that the soil of their place could be used to create cooking utensils. The tsikals, used for cooking in the woods, had their honor, as did the oven pots, as the locals call them.
The new generation of pottery is no longer limited to the species and designs of the older ones, but evolve according to modern trends and always with respect to tradition. We would say that they have taken a more artistic dimension, and people have embraced this approach, seeing their creations as something handmade, fresh and different. Behind, of course, a clay hides many hours of work, fine and care, something that the residents of Sifnos have in surplus. From cookware to decorative ceramics, you can find truly elegance in the island’s laboratories.
If you are on the island, visit such a workshop, talk to the people of the island and support their efforts to maintain something so beautiful, authentic and timeless as pottery art. In the place where the iconic and unparalleled beauty of Cycladic figurines were once created, today the hands of the potters are still clearing the clay and create shapes and utensils with their imagination and heart.
Source :Skai
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