Roots Series

Spring-Winter 2025.

This series of planters grew out of an ongoing fascination with processes that resist absolute control. Each form was built to welcome transformation, allowing the intense heat of the soda kiln to bend, warp, and alter the structure as it moved through firing.

As vaporized soda drifted through the kiln’s atmosphere, it settled unpredictably onto the clay, creating surfaces shaped entirely by what they captured in that moment—swirls of flashing, areas of shine, and textures that speak to the kiln’s shifting conditions.

The finished pieces are fully vitrified and strong, yet carry the imprint of chance. They serve as small monuments to the conversation between maker and material, where the final outcome is guided—but never fully dictated—by the artist.

A series of bonsai pots/succulent planters created in Cinco clay with Johnson’s flashing slip, 60 clay with flashing red slip, or bmix clay with butter flashing slip, fired in the soda kiln at Yourist Gallery.