Sinuvia
White and red stoneware, sprayed beige engobe, leather, natural raffia twine.
2024
Sinuvia is a quartet of stoneware vessels that have stepped beyond the role of vase and into the territory of landscape. Wheel rotation first laid down calm, concentric rings—each pass a thin sediment layer. From that bedrock we built upward, then cut back in: folding, sealing, and lacing the walls with leather that feels both protective and nostalgic, a memory of usefulness the pieces no longer need. Slender red‑clay conduits later breached the surfaces, looping across them like exploratory roots.
What wind and water do to stone, our hands did here—slow, deliberate erosion turned objects of service into compact landforms. Desert‑pale skins now catch light the way sandstone ripples ignite at dawn; one moment they read as matte strata, the next they flare with a quiet sheen. Draw closer and you will see twin memories at once: the tranquil circles of the wheel and the restless scars of alteration. Between them lies a stalled migration—matter trying on new shapes, unsure whether it will end as architecture, organism, or artifact.
In that tension, the work keeps asking: What might grow when we shape something past its purpose and let it reveal itself instead? Each vessel stands as a quiet structure caught between container and terrain, carrying traces of the wheel’s original order and every decisive shift that followed. They invite us to consider what fresh life—or fresh meaning—can rise when form is no longer bound to function, and light is allowed to finish the story.
