Vases for

These works are a series of hand-built earthenware clay vases with sculptural elements that incorporate live plants. The forms are developed in response to the specific behaviours, symbolism, and physical qualities of the plants themselves, creating vessels that function simultaneously as containers, bodies, and living habitats. The work dedicated to Mimosa pudica draws from the plant’s sensitivity to touch and movement. Often referred to as the “Shy Plant,” “Shame Plant,” or “Touch-Me-Not,” it reflects on the human tendency to anthropomorphise plants because of their visible reactions to contact. 

The sculpture incorporating Mother of a Million (Kalanchoe daigremontiana) is informed by the plant’s invasive reproductive strategy. This succulent generates countless small clones along the edges of its leaves, allowing it to rapidly colonise surrounding space. The work with San Pedro cactus draws from the plant’s psychotropic and ceremonial associations. Often described as carrying a strong masculine spirit, the cactus informs an elongated sculptural form connected to transformation, ritual, and altered states of perception. Across the series, the plants are not treated as decorative additions but as active collaborators whose biological and symbolic characteristics shape the sculptures themselves. As the plants continue to grow and change over time, the works remain in a state of ongoing transformation, existing between sculpture and organism.