on emptiness
In the space between gestures, the work begins. We hold to wabi-sabi: the conviction that imperfection, transience, and quiet attention are not lesser virtues but the only virtues that endure. A line that wavers carries more truth than a line drawn straight. A surface that crackles bears witness to the fire that made it.
on practice
The studio is not a stage. It is a place of return. Each day the same questions, the same materials, the same patient hands. What we build here is not built for speed. It is shaped slowly, then set aside; revisited, refined, abandoned, reclaimed. The works that remain are those that survived our changing minds.
We make for the maker who can wait. For the reader who finishes the page. For the eye that pauses on the seam where two surfaces meet.
selected works
- 2024 Untitled vessel, no. 7 stoneware, ash glaze
- 2024 Notes on a quiet morning prose, edition of forty
- 2023 Imperfect circle (folio) ink on handmade paper
- 2023 Studio audio, vol. ii field recordings, hour loop
- 2022 Crackle & light photographs of glaze
materials
Stoneware fired to cone ten. Iron-rich slips. Ash glazes drawn from oak and pine. Ink ground from pine soot. Paper made by hand from kozo and gampi. Words held until they have weight enough to set down.
The list is short by intent. We learn one material by spending years inside it.
the rooms
A clay room with a single window. A writing room without one. A small kiln in the courtyard, where the work meets the fire and is changed. A bench by the door for the visitor who comes without notice.
Each room is asked to do less, so it can do that little well.
visit
By appointment, on quiet afternoons. We do not exhibit; we receive.
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