Red stoneware, crushed clay, wood, 8' x 3'
2024
$8,000
Rising eight feet high by four feet across, Ashen Song confronts the viewer with a silent chorus of unglazed ceramic vessels—each holding a pocket of darkness and a delicate drift of sand at its lip. These clustered forms echo the slow dance of volcanic ash and shifting earth, revealing matter in perpetual transition. Fire has rendered the clay enduring, yet it remains fragile, carrying the memory of raw, unformed potential.
The sand, eroded and reconstituted, speaks in a hush—an almost inaudible “song” of time passing, of creation and re-creation. In this interplay of substance and void, we glimpse nature’s ceaseless choreography of destruction and renewal, where even silence resonates with the power of the elements.
Ashen Song invites us to witness the tension between solidity and ephemerality, reminding us that from the ashes of the earth, a quiet music of transformation forever hums beneath our feet.
