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Medium: Clay with Slip
Dimensions: 8 in x 5 in 5 in
Wheel-thrown vessel in a light clay body. Texture created with a dark, grogged slip. At the bisque stage, iron and rutile oxides were brushed onto the surface, followed by painted turquoise glaze. Cone 10 reduction fired.
“My work is rooted in tactile exploration. Clay functions as a meditative practice and an ongoing act of learning, one in which I intentionally embrace difficulty and uncertainty. The Topography series draws from the atlases of my imagination, translating texture into landscape. As a thru-hiker and rambler, I depend on topographic maps to guide my journeys, and there is profound wonder in walking through those abstractions in reality—feeling contours underfoot, encountering new geographies, and testing my own capacity for adventure. These pieces reflect that physical and imaginative act of navigation, where touch becomes a way of knowing place.”
Alexandra D’Italia is an award-winning writer and professor who has worked in collage and mixed media. An avid solo traveler and thru-hiker, she has Wwoofed on farms from Alaska to Thailand. Her recent journey into ceramics is an exploration of form and texture, an effort to capture the alchemy of science, nature, and art she experiences when working on small organic farms. Alexandra also spends every summer she can teaching creative writing and empowerment at Jacaranda School for Orphans in Limbe, Malawi. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and two dogs.
Medium: Clay with Slip
Dimensions: 8 in x 5 in 5 in
Wheel-thrown vessel in a light clay body. Texture created with a dark, grogged slip. At the bisque stage, iron and rutile oxides were brushed onto the surface, followed by painted turquoise glaze. Cone 10 reduction fired.
“My work is rooted in tactile exploration. Clay functions as a meditative practice and an ongoing act of learning, one in which I intentionally embrace difficulty and uncertainty. The Topography series draws from the atlases of my imagination, translating texture into landscape. As a thru-hiker and rambler, I depend on topographic maps to guide my journeys, and there is profound wonder in walking through those abstractions in reality—feeling contours underfoot, encountering new geographies, and testing my own capacity for adventure. These pieces reflect that physical and imaginative act of navigation, where touch becomes a way of knowing place.”
Alexandra D’Italia is an award-winning writer and professor who has worked in collage and mixed media. An avid solo traveler and thru-hiker, she has Wwoofed on farms from Alaska to Thailand. Her recent journey into ceramics is an exploration of form and texture, an effort to capture the alchemy of science, nature, and art she experiences when working on small organic farms. Alexandra also spends every summer she can teaching creative writing and empowerment at Jacaranda School for Orphans in Limbe, Malawi. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and two dogs.