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The pottery wheel and I are a strong metaphor for the world in which we live, machine versus human. Once intended to enhance the world and simplify our lives, modern machines are constantly transforming human behavior, distancing us from one another, distorting reality through a constant need for machine interaction. Machines problem solve, manufacture and think for our society. Reliance on machine made products controls our daily lives influencing our decisions, our fundamental behaviors. Machines made products set the standards for the way we live. Undeniably, Umbilical Regeneration is influenced by machine perfection, sometimes falling short of the handmade quality, the wabi- sabi so to speak, the beauty of imperfection, the human quality. What is perfection, who determines and defines it, man or machine?