My life in clay

...and back into my studio to finish the first phase of this project... (see yesterday's post ).

so to sum up my piece 
It will be a bucket and spade , brining to mind happy times from my childhood spent at the beach;
The bucket has a different part of my life on each side , with compass points :
N : wheat and oats and grasses pressed into the clay denoting my life on the family farm.
E : Bahrain, pictured here - an all too short 18 month stay in this amazing place.
W: USA, another experience abroad.
S: Southsea, home from foreign travels.

And inside the bucket is me - trying to scale the walls and pull myself up on a rope...
and I haven't even made the spade yet...