Every day, during my two-month residency in Canada, I collected and processed mud from the St. Lawrence River—filtering, drying, and wedging it until it became clay suitable for wheel-throwing. This physically demanding yet meditative practice became my daily ritual and my personal search for the “ideal work”: physical, artistic, environmentally harmless, craft-based, and conceptual. At the end of the residency, I returned all unfired pieces to the river, letting the tide reclaim them. This act of giving back was a gesture of humility toward land long claimed by colonial forces, on which I was only a visiting presence.
La vase (Fr.) — mud, vase.
This work was created during a residency at Est-Nord-Est and Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, 2017
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