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Wavy bowls and lily sculptures — each piece is shaped slowly, one hour at a time.
Wavy bowls and lily sculptures — each piece is shaped slowly, one hour at a time.
I spent most of my career on a grid — control, precision, repeatability. Porcelain doesn’t take instruction. It sags, it cracks, it moves after you’ve already decided it’s finished.
Nothing in this work is ever perfect. Getting comfortable with that took longer than it should have.
Each piece — bowl or lily — takes about 25 hours to coax into shape: forming, refining, and firing, at a community studio in Nashville.
How they're made
Porcelain is wedged until all the bubbles are gone and the clay becomes elastic, responsive, and ready.
All the pieces are hand-formed, folded, and curved. The way the porcelain behaves is different every time.
Walls are smoothed and thinned, edges are softened. Some will break, some will be abandoned.
The slowest step. Drying happens over days, under plastic. Rush it and the walls crack before they ever reach the kiln.
Typically I'll just bisque fire the pieces. Unglazed porcelain has a softness that doesn't need any embellishments.
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