WORK

Composition 03 (right)
2026
Ceramic, underglaze, pigment

Composition 04 (left)
2026
Ceramic, underglaze, glaze, pigment,
wood fired

Composition 03 and 04, 2026

Composition 03 and Composition 04 were created during the three-week artist residency at the Rothko Museum, Daugavpils, as part of the 14th International Ceramic Art Symposium organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics. The works were presented in the closing group exhibition at the museum and will enter the collection of the Rothko Museum after the exhibition.

During the residency, we often walked through the 19th-century fortress, where the Rothko Museum is located. We visited the abandoned military hospital near the studio. Its ceilings and walls slowly giving way, peeling back to reveal colours underneath: layers of paint, of time, of lives once lived inside them. The decay had its own palette. Gritty, weathered, fading and yet full of feeling. 

I am fascinated by how a space in decomposition can move you just as much as one freshly made.

Composition 03 is the beginning. The space, as it once was, freshly painted, full of intention.

Composition 04 is the aftermath. It was my first wood firing, and I used it as a laboratory. I knew the fire would burn away the brightness of the colour like time fades the paint. I wanted to see how much colour I could preserve, and how the process itself could create weathering as meaning. The result is deliberately imperfect. Colours surface from underneath, alive in their fading. It holds a different kind of life.

Exhibition view