{"id":399,"date":"2026-01-11T08:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/?page_id=399"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:26:14","slug":"connect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/?page_id=399","title":{"rendered":"A thread of connection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-advanced-heading  root-eb-advance-heading-djahw\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-advance-heading-djahw \"><div class=\"eb-advance-heading-wrapper eb-advance-heading-djahw button-1 waviy\" data-id=\"eb-advance-heading-djahw\"><h2 class=\"eb-ah-title\"><span class=\"first-title\"> a thread of connection | 2024\/2025<\/span><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-context=\"{ &quot;autoclose&quot;: false, &quot;accordionItems&quot;: [] }\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/accordion\" role=\"group\" class=\"wp-block-accordion is-layout-flow wp-block-accordion-is-layout-flow\">\n<div data-wp-class--is-open=\"state.isOpen\" data-wp-context=\"{ &quot;id&quot;: &quot;accordion-item-1&quot;, &quot;openByDefault&quot;: false }\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.initAccordionItems\" data-wp-on-window--hashchange=\"callbacks.hashChange\" class=\"wp-block-accordion-item is-layout-flow wp-block-accordion-item-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-accordion-heading has-accent-4-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8a205630128dce54f04e5516213a85a1\"><button aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-item-1-panel\" data-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isOpen\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.toggle\" data-wp-on--keydown=\"actions.handleKeyDown\" id=\"accordion-item-1\" class=\"wp-block-accordion-heading__toggle\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\"><span class=\"wp-block-accordion-heading__toggle-title\">Hand-building and altered wheel-thrown forms shape my ceramic work. Mark-making remains visible, even when the forms pull toward a more pared-back geometry. I work in the friction between those registers\u2014an inheritance of moving between different cultures, and of living with more than one visual grammar at once. My practice has always been driven by material experimentation and the mixing of media. Clay and leather initially felt like an unlikely pairing. I wanted to test what happens when two materials with different behaviours\u2014one fired to stone, the other flexible and tensile\u2014are brought into the same form.<\/span><span class=\"wp-block-accordion-heading__toggle-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><\/button><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div inert aria-labelledby=\"accordion-item-1\" data-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isOpen\" id=\"accordion-item-1-panel\" role=\"region\" class=\"wp-block-accordion-panel is-layout-flow wp-block-accordion-panel-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-accent-4-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fe7ed1da2b73533be1f91b8a6a389686\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">The leather cord becomes the connecting thread, drawing separated ceramic parts into relation while refusing seamless unity. The join remains visible; the ceramic pieces stay distinct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-4-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-580910df62d7d258a21cdff82a0fb3cd\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">This series asks what a vessel can become once its wholeness is interrupted. What becomes possible when a decorative pot is cut, broken, and reassembled\u2014or built from disparate parts and clays from the outset? At what point does it shift from vessel to sculpture: an object with its own narrative and tension? The work began with a technical problem\u2014binding different clays with different shrinkage rates\u2014and arrived at a conceptual one: how do we hold together without becoming the same? Stitching, knotting, and tension are not merely solutions; they are the work\u2019s language of connection and separation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-4-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4c01e1073d2945038d4cb35837526287\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">From there, the forms open into a wider logic: life is a continual movement between connection and isolation, between making contact and holding distance. The \u201cperfect\u201d vessel dissolves into an exploration of continuum and discontinuity\u2014of how things belong together without fully merging\u2014held open by play, curiosity, and the insistence that connection can remain real even when parts stay distinct. (Selected works from the series).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-image-gallery  root-eb-image-gallery-ww8gl\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-image-gallery-ww8gl \"><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-wrapper eb-image-gallery-ww8gl preset-4 v2 grid null enable-isotope    \" data-id=\"eb-image-gallery-ww8gl\" data-default-filter=\"*\" data-searchfilter=\"false\"><div data-type=\"image\" class=\"eb-gallery-img-content  eb-filter-img-\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-link-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-gallery-img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cut-the-noise-2-300x200.jpg\" image-index=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-overlay\"><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-content\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-caption\">cut the noise<\/div><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-description\">approx. diameter 37cm,  naked black stoneware, glazed white earthenware, red engobe on inside, stitched with brown leather.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div data-type=\"image\" class=\"eb-gallery-img-content  eb-filter-img-\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-link-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-gallery-img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cut-the-noise-1-200x300.jpg\" image-index=\"2\" alt=\"\"\/><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-overlay\"><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-content\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-caption\">cut the noise | detail<\/div><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-description\">approx. diameter 37cm,  naked black stoneware, glazed white earthenware, red engobe on inside, stitched with brown leather.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div data-type=\"image\" class=\"eb-gallery-img-content  eb-filter-img-\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-link-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-gallery-img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/74AF45E4-1C83-4250-8A8A-077D871257B5-2423-000006FA9B91B163-1536x1024-1-300x200.jpeg\" image-index=\"3\" alt=\"\"\/><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-overlay\"><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-content\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-caption\">cut the noise | top view | inside<\/div><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-description\">approx. diameter 37cm,  naked black stoneware, glazed white earthenware, red engobe on inside, stitched with brown leather.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div data-type=\"image\" class=\"eb-gallery-img-content  eb-filter-img-\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-link-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-gallery-img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/recon-1.jpg\" image-index=\"4\" alt=\"\"\/><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-overlay\"><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-content\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-caption\">reconciliation<\/div><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-description\">porcelain glazed, black earthenware, naked, approx 37x25cm, leather cord<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div data-type=\"image\" class=\"eb-gallery-img-content  eb-filter-img-\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-link-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-gallery-img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/recon-2.jpg\" image-index=\"5\" alt=\"\"\/><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-overlay\"><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-content\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-caption\">reconciliation<\/div><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-description\">porcelain glazed, black earthenware, naked, approx 37x25cm, leather cord<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div data-type=\"image\" class=\"eb-gallery-img-content  eb-filter-img-\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-link-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-gallery-img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/recon-4.jpg\" image-index=\"6\" alt=\"\"\/><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-overlay\"><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-content\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-caption\">reconciliation<\/div><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-description\">porcelain glazed, black earthenware, naked, approx 37x25cm, leather cord<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div data-type=\"image\" class=\"eb-gallery-img-content  eb-filter-img-\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-link-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-gallery-img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_7431.jpeg\" image-index=\"7\" alt=\"\"\/><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-overlay\"><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-content\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-caption\">wanna be my yellow<\/div><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-description\">porcelain, 33x8x30cm, leather cord, chalk &#038; spray paint<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div data-type=\"image\" class=\"eb-gallery-img-content  eb-filter-img-\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-link-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-gallery-img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_7429.jpeg\" image-index=\"8\" alt=\"\"\/><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-overlay\"><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-content\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-caption\">wanna be my yellow<\/div><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-description\">porcelain, 33x8x30cm, leather cord, chalk &#038; spray paint<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div data-type=\"image\" class=\"eb-gallery-img-content  eb-filter-img-\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-link-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-gallery-img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ellipsis.pink\/phl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_7430.jpeg\" image-index=\"9\" alt=\"\"\/><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-overlay\"><div class=\"eb-img-gallery-content\"><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-caption\">wanna be my yellow<\/div><div class=\"eb-gallery-img-description\">porcelain, 33x8x30cm, leather cord, chalk &#038; 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