celestial crafts, ancestrally cocreated

I have been volunteering as a studio assistant at Jeremy Ayers’s Pottery in Waterbury Village, VT since January 2019, where I have been helping with mineral glazemaking + learning about geology thru glaze chemistry.

thru working with the studio glazes that we prepare in house, I have become enamored with the process of designing on the 3d ceramic surface thru the possibilities of layering 1-3 glazes together on the ceramic body, and painting + drawing within the layers of glazes on each piece with soy-based wax resist. I love combining my affinity for sculpting clay with my hands, re-cycling Earth materials, and illustrating thru this sacred medium.

for Jeremy’s stoneware commercial production, we use 2 kinds of Cone 6 clays from Laguna Clay, which we then reclaim in house within the wet clay stage. this reclaim clay is made available to studio assistants and the public as great quality, usable clay for firing to ceramic stoneware at Cone 6.

I use all reclaim clay from Jeremy’s studio for my ceramics creations + share my kiln needs with the studio. Jeremy’s pottery studio has been a sweet community to create in and be a part of, in company of Jeremy + awesome artists that assist in studio operations and produce our own works out of the community space.

Boston, Massachusetts; and Winooski River watershed of Vermont, unceded Abenaki territory

I hail from my mother Chaoying’s Lai family + from my dad Zeyi’s family Xian from Canton / modern day Guangzhou.

I woke up as a baby aboard Mothership Earth, in the year they call 1993 CE.

Honeyjug and I first met at a thrift market in Montana in 2017, in the year following my season of trails and historic preservation service with the Montana Conservation Corps.

Honeyjug and I became dance and storytelling partners, debuting as somatic movement accompaniment to our friends Cole & The Thornes, who requested our performance on aerial silks in the time that I was learning, teaching, and practicing with Mountain Air Dance in Bozeman.

we had the time of our lives dancing a sold out album release show in March 2018, for Cole & The Thornes’s album, Map Maker, in the newly opened Rialto Theatre in downtown Bozeman, to a hometown crowd amidst many loved ones.

we crashed hard with a house fire that I woke up to in my bedroom a few days later in March 2018, and within this period of instability, I returned home to Vermont for a season of one of my favorite jobs, carrying out riparian tree restoration with the Intervale Conservation Nursery, on planting projects across the state.

somewhere here, the story will circle back to Cloud Fossil Design. really we just want to honor the stories of and share gratitude for how we got here and where we strive to continue to move forward with the circumstances of this current life, on our shared home planet Earth. writing to be continued!

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