Dear Arcani
I know you’ve been asking around about my drastically diminished output of, as you so lovingly call them, overpriced doorstoppers. And while we have our disagreements when it comes to art and whatever you call those paint splashes you make on canvas, I do feel that you deserve an explanation.
As you know my pieces stopped appearing on the market around the summer solstice, but truth be told my drop in productivity began a few weeks prior when I experienced a series of thefts. 4 over a two week period to be exact, each occurring when the mixture of my base clay was nearing completion, and each theft stealing all the clay I had been preparing to work with.
They were admittedly more annoying than costly, the thefts I mean, it wasn’t like the base clay being stolen was expensive, it just took a while to prepare. Honestly there were far more valuable things in my studio, even if, like you, the thief considered my work of little value. I keep in my studio valuable tools of my trade, so the theft of the clay but none of my tools left me puzzled and admittedly intrigued.