my approach to design and research almost always involves hands-on making. I’m irreparably aware of the importance of medium and material in composing an object’s deepest and most immediate meanings.

Objects are an archive of the accumulated processes and marks by which they are made. Software, printmaking, 3d printing, extrusion, slip casting are all participants, leaving their marks in the final product. Making, therefore, must involve both the object and the processes by which it is designed and produced.

Humans have been constructing objects from clay for 20,000+ years, and yet new technologies can upend this experience in a moment and reintroduce the most fundamental questions anew. The rise of digital production tools has been opening up possibilities for what clay objects can be. These technologies are exciting creative tools, they inspire the development of original object languages, free of known traditions, archetypical forms or endlessly paraphrased references.