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I should learn more about it,” she says. “I dug out an old kiln that my mom found at a garage sale and a wheel she pur chased for me. e rst pots I made were pretty wonky and uneven,” she laughs. She continued to practice her pottery and paint. “I set up an Etsy shop that I used as a website to display my work,” she says. “I listed my ceramics and they started to sell frequently.”Her individual pieces and ideas were a hit and she began dedicating more and more time to clay. “It became a part-time job and I even started selling my pieces wholesale to an interior design company,” she adds. “I quit my teaching job and took some time to run a community studio in Flushing for about four years. en, the pandemic hit.” It was then that her ceramic business took o and Bundy dedicated herself to her art full-time. Her work has been exhibited at Buckham Gallery and featured in an issue of Country Living magazine . Her creations and collections are unique. Each item, design, picture exists by itself as a one-of-a-kind piece of art,

yet together as part of humanity’s collective unconscious, part of our natural world. (According to psychoanalyst and philosopher Carl Jung, the “collective unconscious” is the deep-rooted, unconscious knowledge and imagery that every person is born with and shared by all human beings due to ancestral experience.) is is by design. Each theme is inspired by nature and our relationship with it. “I’m end lessly fascinated with folklore and creation stories and how ancient humans interacted with the environment,”Bundy explains. “ at ancient interaction is something common to all of us. Our ancestor’s reciprocity with the plants and animals of our world is what connects us.My designs are meant to nd and re-establish that connection.”Her recent collections include “Medusa,”“Strawberry Moon,”“Mush rooms” and “Crow Magic.” Every piece Bundy creates is hand-made, taking sometimes 5-6 hours from start to nish and each piece is singular, never to be repeated. “ ey are intentionally 

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