During his teenage,
Joseph Abi Yaghi worked as an elevator installer, then he became a prosthetist. As the arcenciel association for disabled people was founded, he left his job to join it. After so many years Joseph quit working full time at arcenciel to start a new job.

During this trajectory, pottery never caught his eye.

A friend offered to open a pottery shop with him and he started selling pottery.

One day this friend introduced him to a lady who was a pottery teacher, and she offered to teach him. So Birgitta came to his workshop every day for five weeks to teach him how to lathe.

Joseph took part in a competition at the Museum for three consecutive years and received a special mention six months after starting to work on the lathe. In the second year, he received another special mention, and in the third and final year of participating in this competition, he won the first prize.
For fourteen years Joseph stopped working pottery but his beloved Poland where he lives with his family called him to start again.