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Elige un estado de ánimo y la propia sala te responderá: la luz se enfría o se calienta, el aire cambia su ritmo y solo las obras que evocan ese sentimiento emergen de la oscuridad. Todo lo demás retrocede hacia la sombra.
Byron Temple
Early Life and Apprenticeship Byron Temple, born in 1933 in Centerville, Indiana, embarked on a journey that would establish him as a pivotal figure in American studio pottery. His initial exposure to the craft wasn’t through formal training but rather through the everyday ceramic vessels used on his family's rural farm—a humble beginning that instilled an appreciation for the functional beauty of clay. Temple pursued studies at Ball S
tate University and later the Brooklyn Museum Art School, followed by time at the Art Institute of Chicago, laying a foundational artistic groundwork. However, it was the discovery of Bernard Leach’s *A Potter’s Book* that proved transformative. This seminal work ignited a passion for hand-thrown functional pottery, prompting Temple to seek an apprenticeship with Leach himself at St. Ives Pottery in Cornwall, England, beginning in 1960…