Built by coil and slab using high-fire refractory clays, iron slips, and unglazed mineral washes. The unrefined bodies yield rough, porous surfaces that absorb directional light and accentuate the strange silhouettes characteristic of benthic life.
Sculptures are designed as tactile focal pieces for interior architectural settings and contemporary collections, standing apart from conventional decorative ceramics through their uncompromising anatomical inquiry.
Sequential building phases
Solid massing
Surface carving
Reduction firing
Initial volumes are built slowly from coarse stoneware, establishing the heavy, low-slung proportions of benthic organisms.
Fissures, ridges, and anatomical irregularities are carved by hand to replicate natural abyssal adaptations.
Atmospheric reduction kilns impart unpredictable dark flashes and mineral crusts across each unglazed surface.