This work focuses on the devastating effects of the recent bushfires close to home in Yarramalong, NSW. The hand-built porcelain elongated trunk-like shapes are marked with sgraffito designs that depict the bush, burned black, but regrowing after the fires, branches reaching out to the sky. The vessels symbolise the tranquil, mysterious and sinuous qualities of trees, earth and sky, and the ways these elements are interconnected. Through use of positive and negative space and thin porcelain clay body, I aim to convey and interrogate enactments of dependency and interaction, but also of fragility and decay, hinting at the fragility of our ecosystem and our responsibility of care.
