2022

30 x 15 x 13
Paper clay, glaze, underglaze

Anyone who has experienced loss — of a person, an imagined future, a cherished identity — knows that grief is an ocean. Its waves are unpredictable; its tides pulled by a moon with an irregular orbit. Sometimes you can’t see the bottom.

Scientists have studied grief at a molecular level — there is a stress-related neurotransmitter called Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) which plays a key role in the pain we feel. Isn’t it amazing that such an all-consuming experience could be driven, in part, by something so impossibly small?