Working with a material like clay often evokes the vast history it has helped uncover, and in these realizations comes a recognition of time’s cyclical nature, making thinking about the future intuitive as it emerges alongside an effort to understand the past. The following works have been constructed within speculative, science-fictional worlds, exploring how technology reshapes our environments, desires, and sense of belonging, while asking what we will leave behind and what will be carried forward.

In this context, my work engages with ideas of transhumanism, gene editing, and attempts to give form to abstract concepts such as ‘transmutation’ and ‘emergence’, unfolding in dialogue with a parallel evolutionary history where technology and transformation play out along alternative, imaginative trajectories.

This series plays with the visual language of the body through abstraction, anthropomorphic forms that emerge and dissolve within fluid, shifting shapes. I work in close relation to negative space, almost as if designing a symbol or logo. Within the work, stasis and growth, balance and play are held in tension. Modern Muscle explores the aesthetics and ideals of the contemporary body through abstract, playful ceramic forms. Evoking the sensual weight and presence of flesh, the works draw from modernist sculpture, fragmenting and isolating the body into dumbbell-like silhouettes that focus on posture, contour, and muscular tension.

Each piece is hand-built using the traditional coiling technique and gradually refined through multiple stages of shaping and surface work. During drying, the forms are repeatedly scraped back, sanded, and burnished with pigments rubbed into the clay, creating a rich, leathery texture before the first firing.

I place a significant emphasis on exploring the expressive possibilities of the vessel form within my artistic landscape. It is where I began, and a space I continuously return to, even as my practice expands to express other ideas. The sculptural vessels remain a consistent space for me to impose and expose ideas that are refined extensively by design sensibilities.

Inspired by traditional pottery, growing interest in craftsmanship and the importance of hand-craft, my vessels expand the conventional concept of containment. They become philosophical objects, not holding physical contents but defining the space around them. Through this inversion, the viewer transitions from an observer to a container, absorbing these forms within their own perception and understanding.