The Moon Weaver, Night Moth, 2026
When darkness settles over the Carpathian forests, moths are said to gather the loose threads of dreams before dawn scatters them. At the center stands the Moon Weaver, whose wings are embroidered with fragments of forgotten fairy tales. The smaller moths circle as guardians, carrying dreams to children, poets, and wanderers who still believe the unseen world is only one breath away.
Night Moth: ceramic, 2025, size: 20" h x 11" w x 3" d
Night Moth 2, ceramic, 2025, size: 8"h x 6" w x 2" d
Night Moth 3, ceramic, 2025, size: 6" h x 6" w x 2" d
2026
The Watcher in the Thicket
A mysterious guardian slowly reveals itself from a dense tapestry of twisting vines, roots, and organic ornament. Neither wholly human nor animal, the central figure appears to emerge from the living landscape as if consciousness itself were taking form within nature. Richly textured surfaces and flowing botanical motifs evoke the visual language of Eastern European folklore, where forests are inhabited by spirits that exist between the visible and invisible worlds. The sculptural relief invites prolonged contemplation, allowing hidden faces and forms to continually emerge from its intricate surface. It reflects the idea that transformation is never complete, that identity, like the natural world, is in a perpetual state of becoming. The figure offers not death but transformation, surrendering certainty so that something unseen may continue to grow. Around her gather the spirits of root, feather, and stone, silent witnesses to the oldest covenant between humanity and nature: nothing truly disappears; everything changes its form.
Ceramic relief sculpture
size: 15” h x 9” w x 1.5” d
2026
The Ancient Within
She rests with her eyes closed, suspended between waking and dreaming, while an older world gathers around her. Horns, creatures, roots, and organic forms rise from her body like fragments of an ancient memory—something primordial awakening beneath the surface of consciousness. She is neither wholly human nor wholly animal, but a meeting place between the two: a vessel for instinct, imagination, and the enduring intelligence of nature. In her stillness there is transformation; in her silence, a remembering. She carries within her the wildness we have inherited, the mysteries we have forgotten, and the ancient life that continues to move through us.
Ceramic relief sculpture
size: 13.5” h x 9” w x 1.5” d
2026
The Remembering
Eyes closed, she turns inward, held within the quiet embrace of the natural world. Her face emerges from layers of leaves, tendrils, and organic forms, as though earth itself is gathering around her and returning her to something ancient. There is a sense of surrender here—not an escape from the world, but a deeper entering into it. She seems to remember what the conscious mind has forgotten: that beneath our human stories lies an older rhythm, a primordial connection to the earth, to instinct, and to the living intelligence that moves through all things. In her stillness, nature becomes both sanctuary and mirror, a place where the self dissolves and something more ancient begins to awaken.
Ceramic relief sculpture
size: 13.5” h x 9” w x 1.5” d
Sacrifice, 2026
The Keeper of Seeds
Every spring demands a winter, and every harvest remembers what was buried beneath the earth. The figure offers not death but transformation, surrendering certainty so that something unseen may continue to grow. Around her gather the spirits of root, feather, and stone, silent witnesses to the oldest covenant between humanity and nature: nothing truly disappears; everything changes its form.
Ceramic relief sculpture
size: 20” h x 9.5” w x 3.5” d