Felipe G.

Felipe G. is a ceramic artist from Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, a community with a long tradition of working clay. He models every piece entirely by hand and burnishes it before firing it in a traditional kiln, working with natural clay finished with red slip, or with naturally smoked clay for darker surfaces. His work turns the Oaxacan landscape into sculpture: organ-pipe cacti with small birds nesting between their columns, cactus-shaped bottles, minimal figures and vases carved with flowers. Each piece keeps the quiet irregularities of the hand that made it.