Vessels

“Blue Ember Vessel”, 2026
size: 15.5" h x 6" w
A sculptural ceramic vessel that feels both elemental and alive, this piece unfolds in cascading layers of movement and texture. Its organic form rises like ocean currents, wind-shaped stone, or unfurling petals caught in motion. Rich glazes of deep cobalt, indigo, turquoise, and smoky earth tones flow across the surface, creating luminous transitions that evoke tidal pools, storm clouds, and shifting water.

The vessel’s dramatic ruffled edges and flowing contours invite the eye to travel continuously around the form, revealing new details from every angle. Glossy crystalline passages contrast with crackled matte surfaces, emphasizing the tension between delicacy and strength. Interior pools of saturated blue draw the viewer inward, while the sculptural exterior suggests growth, erosion, and transformation.

Balancing functionality with abstraction, the work exists as both vessel and expressive sculpture — a meditation on movement, nature, and the unpredictable beauty created through fire and glaze.

Title: Charred Memory Vessel, 2026

Ceramic sculpture
size: 22" h x 8" w

Rising like a remnant of something both natural and otherworldly, this vessel carries the presence of transformation etched into its surface. Its charred, bark-like exterior suggests a body shaped by heat, pressure, and time, simultaneously eroded and fortified. The vertical form feels almost geological, as though it has emerged from deep within the earth, bearing scars that read as both wounds and growth.

Subtle cavities and fissures interrupt the surface, hinting at an interior space that is less about containment and more about resonance—an unseen chamber for memory, breath, or absence. The dark, metallic sheen catches light unevenly, revealing moments of quiet luminosity amid the roughened texture, like embers that refuse to fully extinguish.

This piece operates as a vessel not only in function, but in metaphor: a holder of transformation, of what remains after dissolution, and of the quiet persistence of form after change.