Although I enjoy altering trivial objects and shifting them into something new, what I prefer most is to throw and turn them into intriguing and ambiguous things.

In this installation pots are hybridized with anthropomorphic forms or shapes inspired by geological formations. During the process of throwing an uneven shape, the rotation of the potter’s wheel and the gestures of pulling and expanding cause a shift in gravity. They transform the clay, which starts bending, sagging, cracking, sometimes collapsing, and seemingly preventing these forms from existing, except as a pile of rubble. Not particularly drawn to that aesthetic, I had to relearn the gestures I’ve mastered during the last decade, reinvent skills, and let the technique drift into a new practice.

An exploration of the material that is unfolded and playing with the display. Like it happens in my ceramic kiln, where the shelf is continuously rebuilt with every firing. It needs to be optimized and adapted to every object that enters the kiln, yet there are always some strange spaces that form between the pieces as they pile up.