Liminal Vessels: Sculptures from the Stillwater Threshold.
Premiered By Timothy Yarger Fine Art at ART MIAMI -Dec 2-7 2025
Liminal Vessels. Varying height, ceramic sculptures, perspex pedestals and unfinished wooden bases.
Dear All,
It has been far too long since my last update. This past year — one marked profoundly by the Palisades fire and the extraordinary resilience within our community — has also been a period of creative transformation. I’m writing now not to dwell on loss, but to share what has emerged from it: new work, new journeys, and new thresholds.
Introducing Liminal Vessels
Developed after time spent in the reflective wetlands and cypress swamps of South Carolina, Liminal Vessels extends my ongoing inquiry into landscape, memory, and the symbolic language of natural forms. These ceramic works explore the idea of the liminal — the thresholds between water and land, shadow and light, presence and echo.
Rising like rooted columns, the vessels draw upon the vertical architecture of cypress knees, long regarded as guardians of watery borderlands. Their glazed surfaces, built through repeated firings, hold traces of reflection and stillness — sedimented time, mirrored water, and the soft turbulence beneath the surface of experience.
Though born from a specific geography, the series moves beyond depiction toward something more elemental: an exploration of what landscapes remember, and what they quietly return to us.
Liminal Vessels: from left to right. V. Ancestral Column 60”×8”×8”. VI. The Between Vessel 55”x11”x11”. I. Rootwater Witness 65”x10”x10”. VII. Vessel of the Waterline 67”x12”x10”. VIII. The Standing Root 66”x10”x10”.
RITZ-CARLTON YACHT COLLECTION COMMISSION — LUMINARA
Earlier this year, I was honoured to be commissioned by The Ritz-Carlton to create a sculpture for their newest luxury yacht liner, Luminara, launched in May 2025.
Working with a remarkable piece of Rosa Portugali marble from my Topanga studio, I carved the form at Art City Studios in Ventura — a return to my old carving grounds. The resulting work, Luminara, is inspired by the sinuous fronds of Pacific kelp, embodying the ocean’s ceaseless rhythm and the transformative forces of sea and fire.
Verdant striations run through the soft pink marble, suggesting the meeting of elements: water’s fluidity and fire’s galvanising heat. The sculpture’s name draws on the Italian tradition of Luminaria — ceremonial lights offered to the divine or the departed — evoking illumination, remembrance, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit.
In Luminara, flame becomes wave, wave becomes flame, and a single rising form holds both motion and stillness — a meditation on balance, persistence, and the eternal pulse of nature.
Luminara - Ritz Carlton Luxury Yacht.
Finally, I am part of a wonderful show called Dialogues on The Knoll - 19 Artists in four beautiful newly renovated condominiums in West Hollywood. The show runs from Nov 11th Through to the Beginning of January, by appointment and announced events. Landscapes of the Mind are featured in this exclusive environment.
