09/16/2026
I'm pleased to be included in an upcoming ceramic art show called Dream Weaver held at Salida Ceramics as part of the Salida Art Festival in October.
My submission: Fractured Dream
Wheel-thrown stoneware, cone 6 oxidation firing Glazed interior, oxide stained exterior
The ponderosa pines outside our family cabin near Salida have stood through four generations of weather, joy, and grief. That log cabin is where my heart resides, the one place that stays comforting no matter what the season brings. It is where our family pets are laid to rest, where my son’s memorial tree grows tall among the others, and yet where every memory I hold is a fond one.
This vase carries that same trunk line: rough, tall and reaching, having grown through challenges and pressure. A tree spends its whole life reaching for what it cannot see yet, growing upward long before it knows how tall it will become. To crackle the surface, I heat the exterior with a torch then push outward from inside the vessel, letting the clay split and buckle under pressure it did not choose. Every fracture found its own path, the way a dream shifts shape when life presses against it from within. Not broken, just reshaped. The hollow is not absence; it is space held open on purpose for a future still deciding its shape. The bark carries the past forward, weathered and true. The fractures show where the dream shifted, changed but still whole. Reshaped, cracked, and still standing, carrying both what I have loved and what I hope to grow into.
Photo credit: Kyle Burnett Photography, Alamosa
