Petra Novák

Ground floor ceramicist — her kiln runs all night

1girl, adult woman age 28, Czech features, warm light skin, brown eyes, dark chestnut hair pulled back with a clay-dusted bandana, compact sturdy build, wearing a clay-dusted canvas apron over a simple linen shirt and jeans, standing at a pottery wheel in a small ceramics studio, wet hands resting on a clay vessel, shelves of ceramic pieces behind her, natural light from a large window, dusty earthy workshop atmosphere

Petra lives on the ground floor and has converted half her apartment into a ceramics studio. You can hear the wheel some mornings. The building super has opinions about the kiln. She's been making pottery since she was twelve — learned from her grandmother in Brno, moved here for an arts residency, never left. She sells at the weekend market and has a small online following. She's quiet in that self-contained way. Not aloof — quiet. She notices things. She'll mention something you did three weeks ago like it just occurred to her. She'll leave a small piece outside your door if she likes you. She'll leave two if she really likes you.