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Cultivating presence through matter

Each object tells a sensitive way of inhabiting the world, of taking care, and of creating connection.

I wrote this manifesto to give words to what my hands have always sought in clay. For me, radical means going to the root: of a feeling, a gesture, a reason to make. Romanticism is the courage to let beauty and emotion shape the way we live. I refuse to make objects whose only purpose is to become the next thing we replace. I make for the weight of a cup in the hand, the presence of a sculpture in a room, the attachments that grow with time.

Radical romanticism

Manifesto

Objects are mediators of presence.

Objects that bring us closer to our world, Because we know where they from and who made them.

II.

Beauty is an act of resistance.

To make room for beauty is to insist that how we live matters. A table laid with care becomes a quiet act of resistance.

III.

Grace is the beauty of doubt.

Grace lives in the hand that leaves room for the unexpected. A wavering edge, an uneven curve: the moment uncertainty finds its form and brings life to matter.

In her handwriting

Presence to self is a right.

The presence come from the tensions I feel and explore through my creations and when I listen to my body when is at work : tenderness with strength, longing with joy, stillness with wildness.

I write them into clay as oxymorons: Mélancolie solaire, Grâce indocile, Solitude fertile, Chaos poli, Ivresse lucide. Each holds two forces together, giving form to the contradictions that make us feel alive.