06/09/2026
Postcards from the studio •
Igor Igor Trepeshchenok came to visit and captured some studio processes on a day I was preparing clay for future productions.
In the days following a long summer break, I’ve been reshaping how I inhabit the studio, to prepare myself for the winter season.
Not so much to make the work more efficient, but to make it clearer, more productive, more joyful, and, above all, supportive for me in a long run, not only as the owner of a ceramics studio, but as an artist and a designer.
I‘ve returned once again to that rhythm where each day is devoted to one important task, and these tasks rotate from day to day.
Monday, for instance, the day that used to bring me unease after the spontaneity of the weekend has now become the one I look forward to most: inspiring, and in many ways the most nourishing in terms of the energy it gives me for the whole week ahead.
It’s the day I give entirely to the processes of me as an artist. A day for all the things that matter unmistakably to my practice (and that are so easy to push aside, precisely because they never feel urgent), the things that move me forward as a creative person, that help me give shape to my ideas, that help me grow. It’s a day of pure focus, undisturbed by operational matters.
On the photographs here, Igor Igor Trepeshchenok captured a few moments from a different day, one devoted to work just as important and just as unurgent (as one would think), though on another level entirely, and perhaps not my favorite, since it doesn’t offer any immediate reward.
Reclaiming clay is, in general, a laborious and physically exhausting process. And yet I notice how satisfying it is to watch the studio slowly gain more space, to see clay that once failed to become something, or that was simply left over from other processes, take on a new life. (And to see my material expenses drop quite a bit.)
On days like these, immersed in this physical practice, ideas arrive, inner questions resolve themselves, new solutions emerge, the focus shifting from searching for analytical answers toward something physical.
However I‘ve come to see that without a day set aside for creative ideas to surface, I wo
