LAND FORMSBaye Riddell's evocative ceramic works have their origins in clay dug from his own backyard

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Ceramicist baye riddell's process begins at the bank behind his Gisborne home. It is there, shaded by trees, that he digs the clay he will use in his pot-bellied urns and towering pou: tall, skinny sculptures not dissimilar to totem poles.Digging his own clay is important to Baye, who as a young student at the University of Otago found himself looking for something different from the medical studies for which he had initially enrolled."I was thinking about moving back up the coast and wanted to do something on the land," says Baye.