Botanical Urn Series

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The Botanical Series explores and celebrates specific ecosystems, drawing from the specificity of place through direct impressions of native plant life and layered ceramic surfaces. These works honor the symbolism of plants both in contemporary contexts and ancient cultures- translating their forms into tactile compositions that reflect resilience, interconnectedness, and the living language of the landscape.

The Botanical Series expands to include native, invasive, and cultivated plant species, using each as both material and message. Pressed and embedded directly onto the exterior of handmade ceramic urns these plants create a layered record of ecological presence to reveal the tensions between what belongs, what disrupts, and what is human-introduced. In this context, the urn becomes a powerful symbolic form: historically tied to containment, memory, and mortality, it holds not only the idea of human life, but also the fragility and transience of entire ecosystems.

Foraging botanicals and embedding them into clay captures the immediacy of the present; the kiln functions as an instrument of fossilization and makes the present permanent as a geological archive. This process draws on the ancient tradition of cuneiform, where clay tablets served as a ledger for human transactions, acting as both a system of writing and an earth-based cultural record.

The urns are handbuilt using stoneware clay, coated in glaze and slip and once fired in a gas kiln. Layers of wet slip create a fine juicy muck to capture the intricacies of botanicals. Layers of pigments, flux, and minerals are used to enhance the surface, highlighting details and textures of the impressions.

Invasive Species Series: Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus), Sonoma County, California, USA.

Collection Date: April 9, 2026

Elevation: 85 feet

38.29601817694661, -122.45724794971704
Stoneware, slip, botanicals

19" x 19" x 18" (48.5 cm x 48.5cm x 45.7cm)

2026