Daybreak in Kent

It was going to be my last day by the kiln at Joy Brown’s Studio where the artist is getting a mural ready to be transported, and permanently exhibited in Japan, thousands of miles west of Kent, Connecticut. It was a perfect time to establish Beaman Pond, and the hills surrounding the compound of structures where Joy, her boyfriend Jimmy, and a group of dedicated artists fire the fourteen-meter-long kiln every year, a ritual rooted in the ancient Japanese tradition of Anagama.