Earth Mother – Roots

This collection was her first since becoming a mother. It was an ode to her savta (grandma in Hebrew), and to her roots.

“The bottles are inspired by my savta’s own pots, with their form and illustration panels, my hands followed her hands in making them. The painted terracotta bowls speak of objects common to most of the lands of my foremothers, with no tethering in their designs to a particular place or culture. Diasporic, and firmly planted in the earth.

“The four object groupings here on display are vignettes, meant to evoke feeling, to allude to mystical tales. I wonder, what might you find in them?

“I am a ceramic artist forming beautiful archaic objects. I feel viscerally connected with this material and its ancient craft. I want to provide a conduit for reflective experience. I seek to create otherworldly environments or passageways through which viewers are invited to meaningfully engage with the objects I craft. I want to make work that cannot be walked past and seen, you are invited to come in, stay a while, explore.”

Find Amy on Instagram: @amywilsonpotter @amit.miriam

www.amywilsonpottery.com