274 moons / 274 vases
In March 2025, astronomers discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, bringing the total to 274.
I will be hand-building 274 vases, keeping a record in a diary format, as a way of documenting life as an artist attempting to create in uncertain times. Each vase will be released for sale once finished. Before leaving the studio, each piece will be photographed on film and an exhibition is planned at the end of the project, showing photos and remaining vases.
We all are orbiting. Our planet is orbiting our star, our Moon is orbiting us. We do not feel the motion here on Earth, but we can observe it. The passing of the seasons, the sunsets and sunrises.
The expression in clay of the current number of moons orbiting a distant planet is both an exercise in repetition and observation. A way to stay grounded through acts of creation, seeing the completion of a vase as a metaphorical orbit.
I will attempt to create very similar shapes, with porcelain or stoneware.
