The flow of wet clay, kneaded by swiftly powerful hands, makes a powerful image of a man at work. I used my camera’s shutter priority program to set a fast shutter speed of 1/500th of a second to catch the action. The worker’s right hand is moving so fast that even at that shutter speed, there remains a hint of blur in it, an effect that charges the image with energy. The heavily textured clay-covered skin lends further incongruity.