“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
— Carl Jung
A journal written by Audrey Vo Van, ceramic artist
Every page of Imprints of Time is a quiet, 5-minute ritual—an invitation to slow your breath, soften your thoughts, and reconnect through the simple act of touch. No goals. No pressure. Just one texture, one pause, one grounded moment.
Open it: with your morning tea, in the quiet evening, or during life's gentle pause.
Feel it: a shift - from stress to stillness, from thinking to feeling.
Begin the journey
What This Journal Can Teach You
Through each page, you are invited to explore clay not just as material, but as a mirror- revealing what touch, time, and attention can teach us
- Find meaning in cracks and roughness - marks shaped by fire, time, and care
- Follow your hand’s instinct - feel first, think later.
- Discover yourself through form - how each curve, crack, and surface mirrors your own tensions, pauses, and quiet transformations.
By the end, you won’t just see ceramics - you’ll feel differently, too.
What if the fastest way to calm your thoughts… was already in your hands?
Touch is the body’s first language- older than words, deeper than thought. It begins in the womb, long before birth, making it the very first sense we develop. Through warmth, pressure, and presence, it’s how we first connect to the world.
Even as adults, touch remains our most direct route to calm. Just a few minutes of mindful contact can lower heart rate by up to 10 beats per minute and reduce stress hormones by 23%.
When you engage your sense of touch, you engage your whole nervous system - slowing down, softening tension, and returning to presence.
Enter the Journey
Reconnect With Nature
Let this journal guide you through the grain of weathered bark, the crumble of dry earth, and the slow curve of stone - each page an invitation to return to the rhythms of the earth.
Every prompt draws from nature’s own language: the fracture lines of rock, the spiral of roots, the patient shaping of land by time. These tactile moments are more than reflections- they’re reconnections.
As your hands engage with these forms, you’re not just turning pages - you’re remembering how to slow down, to feel deeply, and to root yourself in the present, wherever you are.
Loved by everyone
About the artist
Audrey Vo Van was introduced to stillness not through art, but through her grandfather — a former Buddhist monk who meditated daily, cared for rescued plants, and taught reverence for all forms of life, even the smallest. As a child, Audrey would sit near him, curious about the quiet he carried — a calm she didn’t yet understand, but never forgot.
Years later, she found it again — not seated in silence, but with her hands in clay.
The first time she touched the material, something shifted. It felt alive, familiar. She discovered more than a craft — she discovered a way to express herself.
Not through words, but through form, texture, and breath.
Clay became her meditation. Sculpting became a way to lose track of time, to listen without speaking, to be fully present.
Her work isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence. Every curve invites pause. Every hollow holds a breath.
Imprints of Time, her guided journal, is born of this way of being — an invitation to return to your senses, to stillness, and to the quiet emotional power of clay.
Imprints of Time is a 60-page digital guided journal, shaped by a sculptor’s hands and vision.
It blends poetic reflection with 20 reflection exercises designed to slow your breath, awaken your senses, and invite presence back into your day.
Each page is a soft invitation — to trace memory through texture, to sit with stillness, and to notice what surfaces when the noise fades.
Testimonial: “This journal feels like a quiet companion — grounding, honest, and unexpectedly moving. I’ve never looked at clay, or my own thoughts, the same way since.”
- Sensory Calm: 18 touch-led
exercises help you slow down, soothe your nervous system, and ground yourself through your hands. - Creative Presence: Unlock
your sensitivity and intuitive attention - Inner Reflection: Like
clay, this journal shapes space for silence, memory, and meaning to surface.
Digital journal in pdf format