Liminal Vessels: Sculptures from the Stillwater Threshold

Liminal Vessels: Sculptures from the Stillwater Threshold, extends my longstanding inquiry into landscape, memory, and the symbolic language of natural forms. Developed following a period of immersion in the reflective wetlands and cypress swamps of south Carolina, the series explores the idea of the liminal—the transitional space between water and land, light and shadow, presence and echo, memory and story.

With these sculptural forms, I have continued my material and conceptual investigation into the ways landscape holds memory. The vessels rise like rooted columns, echoing the vertical architecture of cypress knees—structures that allow the tree to breathe through water and mud and have long been regarded as caretakers of threshold places. Their surfaces, built through a layered process of glazing and firing, register reflection and stillness, suggesting both sedimented time and the shifting mirror of water.

Though rooted in a specific geography, the work moves beyond documentation toward a quieter, more elemental meditation on the unseen. Reflection becomes both subject and metaphor: a membrane between worlds and a means of holding what is carried beneath the surface of experience.

 This series continues my interest in allegory, material intelligence, and the contemplative act of observation. Liminal Vessels represents a deepening of the sculptural language—an exploration of thresholds, ancestry, and the quiet architectures that shape both land and human understanding.