I’m a ceramic sculptor who works with wild materials, both local and collected on my travels. I live in Turin, Italy, a city at the foot of the alps, surrounded by hills and weaved through by rivers. This landscape is at the heart of my work as clay is found everywhere here: on walks in the hills, mountains, rivers, grasslands and vineyards.

When I am not playing with clay, I’m an agroecologist working in food politics and beginning to set the first seeds into creating my own farm.

Working with wild materials means collecting small amounts, testing them numerous times, adding rocks and minerals to create a landscape on each of my sculptures. It is an indulgence into the unknown since I never know what the clays, minerals or rocks I am collecting will look like once cooked. My pieces are often left unglazed to show the essence of the earth, its cracks and valleys, indentations and craters, although I’ve recently been exploring by adding layers of clay, oxides and other materials to the surfaces. Each vessel is unique and impossible to duplicate, since they are hand built, without a wheel, but also due to the nature of the limited quantities of clay that can be collected in each location. I fire my pieces at high temperatures from 1150-1250 C to push clay to its limits, allowing it to travel through a geological process of change and dehydration in just a few hours.