Fall Off (2026)

This series is born from the fallen leaves of my fiddle-leaf fig tree. The idea of coating my losses in slip and firing them to permanence was simply too alluring to resist. I was willing to sacrifice the original leaves, trapping them within the clay body and letting them burn away just for that promise of comfort in loss. These leaves are suspended in time, they are only the remnants of that which will never return to the earth. They are quite delicate, and thus they may very well break, but they will never decompose. They are beautiful, and they are mine to covet. They cannot go back home.