What Remains Close; 2024-2025
Ceramic Sculpture
My work is born from the space between places—from the quiet ache of longing and the deep, unbreakable ties that bind us to family, lineage, history, and home. I hold the tension, between geographies and disciplines, between what was and what remains. My journey from fashion design to ceramics was not a rupture but a return—an intimate conversation with material, form, and memory.
I build slowly, by hand. Each figure I shape leans into another in unison, heads tilted toward each other, weight shared, presence felt, bodies pressed close. They do not stand alone but together, forming quiet architectures of belonging. The clay, sometimes raw and exposed, sometimes polished to a whisper of warmth, carries the weight of time and touch. But sometimes, within, gold glows softly, a quiet defiance, something precious endures.
Around all stand my sentinels, guardians of memory, keepers of the spaces we carry within us. They mark the threshold between absence and presence, between solitude and connection.
While building a village I found myself returning to something elemental
Feminine and masculine emerging as rhythms not roles
Ancestral bonds surfaced in gestures and forms
Past and future folding into the present
A quiet choreography of connection and becoming.
I build a village. Not structures, but closeness. Not clay vessels, but moments of living connection, fragile and enduring all at once. A village is not just a place; it is a bond, a lineage, an act of faith. I create not to capture loss but to give form to what remains. To remind myself and others that even in distance, even in fracture, we find our way back to one another.