In "Quiet Architectures," I return to my first training and re-create traditional building elements—bricks, tiles, ledges, and corbels—by carving them freehand from solid blocks of clay.

Using simple wooden tools, I let my hands and the material soften the rigidity of engineered components.

Tiles that map the floorplan of my teenage bedroom. Arranged horizontally, like a timeline—a sequence of memories that surface as you walk by a wall that knows you.

This piece shares the core DNA of my practice: the embrace of severity, the assertion of heft, and a rejection of the pretty.

What we keep. Holding, and holding on. A wall-sized array of earthenware tiles in a pattern reminiscent of damask wallpaper. A few tiles carry copper ledges like small stages.

The wall becomes a living archive, continuously curated through the placing and replacing of objects as tokens of the things we keep, literally, and hold, symbolically.

Stoneware, fired in wood.

Carved and coil-built stoneware.
Fired in wood and wood & soda.

Carved from solid blocks of clay, sometimes adorned with metal—water-cast silver, bronze grain, brass, iron.

Stoneware and wild porcelain.
Wood, soda, and reduction fired.