Each of the works in this series begins with an idea about pattern: the branching of a tree, a grid, a surface composed of triangles, cross-hatch marks. A line is likely not a pattern, but becomes one when one line crosses another.

This work is also about patterns in time, repetition and change; the movement of body, hand, and mind through rhythms of work. At a material level - made from clay and melted glaze - they are expressions of geologic time: granite mountains rising from the ground and then
decomposing back into minerals and clay.

As a sculptor, I’m interested in primary gestures: carving or the act of stacking one thing on another. In these pieces, the base is part of a sculptural whole: made from the same ceramic and glaze materials as the vessels they support. These works are formal propositions, for a kind of organic classicism: hopeful for the possibilities of order and structure, even in a world of insistent material change.

Del Harrow 2026