Moles Underground

Year

2025

Dimensions

Materials

Ceramics Clay and Glaze

Moles Underground shows a flower above the soil and the bulb and animals living beneath it. I did not want to show only the finished flower. Opening the sculpture made the hidden part of the plant and its environment just as important as what appears above ground. I added the moles so the underground section would feel like a complete place instead of a bulb suspended in empty space. I hand-built the flower, bulb, walls, and small animal forms, then glazed and kiln-fired them. The hardest part was reaching the moles with glaze inside the confined space without smearing it across the surrounding walls.