Aysha Peltz

Artist Statement

I make my forms on the potter’s wheel throwing primarily with porcelain and occasionally a smooth, white, stoneware clay body. The thrown pots are built on basic geometries, cylinders or cones varying in proportion with a suggestion of volume. To these forms, I add layers of texture and dimensional line that respond to and emphasize the actions to follow. I alter my structures immediately after throwing them when they are still wet on the wheel, this alteration is a push into the inside or outside of the wall, expanding the texture from behind, creating curves and swells in the form. This way of working naturally creates suggestions of terrain, body, and flora; parched earth, a body in motion, or the imminent decay of something overripe.