The Stamp
A potters stamp,
with simple meaning
ON WHY
My love for ceramics
My favorite part of my work is knowing I'm part of someone's small routines—morning coffee, making dinner, picking flowers. Whatever I make gets to be there for that. Each piece is handmade and completely unique. I cherish that. So when I stamp my work, it's a small reminder that someone made this a piece just for you.
The stamp, pressed into a leather-hard mug.
ON HOW
Slowly. By hand.
A few at a time.
- i.Hand thrown pieces by batch on the wheel — usually a dozen or so, all of different forms in a single family
- ii.Clay dries slowly at my Brooklyn studio. When the clay is leather hard, I trim the feet and press the stamp into the base.
- iii.Bisque firing. Clay heads to its first pass in the kiln. Pieces are then hand glazed and then back to the kiln for final fire.
- iv.Whatever comes out goes up on the shelf, and then here.
On imperfection
All my work is imperfect.
None of my work is symmetrical. Any pottery that is truly symmetrical is not handmade. My work has throwing rings, soft asymmetries, and subtle imperfections in their glaze. These imperfections have become my favorite part of my work. It means that no two pieces are the same, no matter how hard I try. Nothing here was made by anything other than myself.
Made slowly. One piece at a time.