Nap Animals

Nap Animals is a growing series of hand-built ceramic sculptural vases first introduced during my 2019 summer exhibition Nap, where visitors find themselves in a forest of hanging lights and sculptures, enveloping a “Nap Chair” to sit to take a quite moment away from noise and clutter of everyday lives. Nap Animals sat by the wall opposite from the chair, as if they floated out of the napper's dreams.

I hand-built each pieces with coils in cream-white stoneware clay and finished with an unglazed teal-blue stoneware on the outside and a contrasting glossy semi-opaque glaze on the inside. I then fired them in an electric kiln to a high temperature so the clay vitrifies. 

2019
Ceramic