The Botanical Urn Series explores and celebrates specific ecosystems, drawing from the specificity of place through direct impressions of plant life and layered ceramic surfaces. This work honors 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 Urn 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. 

The panels vary is size and are made with 25-50 pounds of clay each, pounded into a wooden frame and fired two times in a gas kiln. The thick panels are fired vertically to avoid cracking, to a top temperature of cone 5/2200°F. Layers of recycled and house-made glazes, glazes, slip, and sand create textured, meteorological effects.

The panels we designed to look like stretched canvases, or architectural stone elements, where the image wraps around the sides. The cable system on the reverse allows the tablet to be rotated and hung on any of the 4 sides while integrating the hardware into the structure of the form.

Ferrous clay, special effect crawling glaze

Each 20” w x 14.5” h x 1” d

(50.8 cm x 36.8 cm x 2.5 cm)

2023

The Botanical Urn Series explores and celebrates specific ecosystems, drawing from the specificity of place through direct impressions of plant life and layered ceramic surfaces. This work honors 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 Urn 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. 

The panels vary is size and are made with 25-50 pounds of clay each, pounded into a wooden frame and fired two times in a gas kiln. The thick panels are fired vertically to avoid cracking, to a top temperature of cone 5/2200°F. Layers of recycled and house-made glazes, glazes, slip, and sand create textured, meteorological effects.

The panels we designed to look like stretched canvases, or architectural stone elements, where the image wraps around the sides. The cable system on the reverse allows the tablet to be rotated and hung on any of the 4 sides while integrating the hardware into the structure of the form.

Stoneware, special effect crawling glaze layered with recycled glaze

20.25” w x 26.25” h x 1.25” d

(51.4 cm x 66.7 cm x 3.2 cm)

2023

The Botanical Urn Series explores and celebrates specific ecosystems, drawing from the specificity of place through direct impressions of plant life and layered ceramic surfaces. This work honors 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 Urn 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. 

The panels vary is size and are made with 25-50 pounds of clay each, pounded into a wooden frame and fired two times in a gas kiln. The thick panels are fired vertically to avoid cracking, to a top temperature of cone 5/2200°F. Layers of recycled and house-made glazes, glazes, slip, and sand create textured, meteorological effects.

The panels we designed to look like stretched canvases, or architectural stone elements, where the image wraps around the sides. The cable system on the reverse allows the tablet to be rotated and hung on any of the 4 sides while integrating the hardware into the structure of the form.

Stoneware, special effect crawling glaze layered with recycled glaze

20.25” w x 26.25” h x 1.25” d

(51.4 cm x 66.7 cm x 3.2 cm)

2023

The Botanical Urn Series explores and celebrates specific ecosystems, drawing from the specificity of place through direct impressions of plant life and layered ceramic surfaces. This work honors 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 Urn 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. 

The panels vary is size and are made with 25-50 pounds of clay each, pounded into a wooden frame and fired two times in a gas kiln. The thick panels are fired vertically to avoid cracking, to a top temperature of cone 5/2200°F. Layers of recycled and house-made glazes, glazes, slip, and sand create textured, meteorological effects.

The panels we designed to look like stretched canvases, or architectural stone elements, where the image wraps around the sides. The cable system on the reverse allows the tablet to be rotated and hung on any of the 4 sides while integrating the hardware into the structure of the form.

Stoneware, special effect crawling glaze layered with recycled glaze

Each 20.25” w x 26.25” h x 1.25” d

(51.4 cm x 66.7 cm x 3.2 cm)

2023