fire leaves traces of touch on clay forms, smoke, fir tree resin, silt soils, irons, seawater/salt deposits on clay, like on shells, rocks in sea. Burnt olive oil cans iridescent colours, ash and charcoal remain, charcoal shows growing rings of tree, find shell on beach with similar ageing rings, lines of my skin layered in clay as I make.
Nov 21 dig half the ash out of the pit, return to earth around olive trees, rain coming
Nov 22/23 pit face, notice my shadow, lightness of ash, see visible and invisible images emerge