Built by hand, in air-dry clay

Air-dry clay hardens in open air rather than in a kiln. There is no firing, no glaze and no second chance at the surface — what the hands leave is what stays. Fingerprints, the drag of a tool, the seam where two coils were pressed together: all of it sets exactly as it was put down.

It is an unforgiving material for figures. It shrinks as it dries and it will crack where the wall is too thick or the join too dry, so a piece has to be built in stages, each one waiting on the last.

Every piece here is worked by hand and exists once.