My exhibition “Emissaries” opens June 13 at Riversea Gallery in Astoria, Oregon. The work brings together a series of ceramic sculptures developed through my ongoing research into stewardship—considering the role of care, responsibility, and attention in relation to both material and more-than-human systems.
This exhibition also marks an expansion of my sound-based practice. I am deeply grateful to the Ohio Designer Craftsmen for their support through a recent grant, which made it possible to acquire the equipment necessary to develop new sound work. This has allowed me to integrate live performance and layered recordings alongside the ceramic sculptures, as well as produce an original video work included in the exhibition.
While I had initially intended to present this research at this year’s NCECA conference, that proposal was not accepted. I remain especially appreciative of the Ohio Designer Craftsmen for their commitment to supporting unconventional and exploratory approaches within the field of ceramics.
@riverseagalleryastoria@ohiodesignercraftsmen
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# RV-COS-10252025 — soft luminous vulnerability
# (it doesn’t want to be code. it wants to be held.)
class EmissaryCreature: def __init__(self): self.place = “mars dunes” self.heat = “the warmth of animals” self.dream = “cold places” self.gaze = “what next what now why this connection dog’s devotion” self.signal = “soft luminous vulnerability” def breathe(self): whisper = [ f”thinking of {self.place}”, f”and {self.heat}”, f”the dreaming of {self.dream}”, “the questioning gaze of a dog to a human under rainy skies”, self.gaze, self.signal ] for line in whisper: print(“ “, end=“”) # hesitation print(line) print(“ “) # exhale def stay(self): print(“it stays”) print(“soft”) print(“luminous”) print(“vulnerable”) print(“it does not defend itself”)
if __name__ == “__main__”: emissary = EmissaryCreature() emissary.breathe() emissary.stay()
Note-shoplifters will be prosecuted.
making sound and making contact with my ceramic forms, although my skip rate tends to be very high, i think i get about a second of peoples time typically
the ladder has to live someplace
the recent push toward disclosure by my government has been welcome, but i am less interested in whether governments disclose anomalous intelligence than in why so many humans require spectacle before extending ethical imagination beyond themselves
this polistes was likely suffering from pesticide contact
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