These stoneware vessels and sculptures reinterpret Palissy ware, a French pottery tradition whose dense, hyper-realist surfaces celebrate natural abundance. Here, fish and ferns are replaced by rats, trash, and post-consumer detritus, rendered in bright glazes that make the repellent look seductive. Found fragments of porcelain dishes and tchotchkes are fused with new clay, refired, and reglazed into awkward, uncanny chimeras — a comment on the absurd, hopeful project of rebuilding a repeatedly shattered world.
