The kiln becomes a site of intimate exchange, not production - a place where material transformation happens in collaboration with fire, not domination by it. The Material Library is tactile, playful, and instinctive. I work slowly, by hand, allowing each material to guide its own evolution. Through these rhythms of making, I have formed a “family” of interconnected materials that respond to one another and to the landscapes they were taken from. No two samples are the same, and this refusal of standardisation is part of the work’s ethos - favouring presence and place over perfection.

Each test is catalogued with process notes and will be made available as an open-source resource. This is not a closed archive, but a shared offering - for artists, designers, and makers looking to engage with the natural world more respectfully, and to seek regenerative alternatives to harmful systems.

The Material Library laid the foundation for my wider practice - embedding values of slowness, reciprocity, and material empathy that continue to shape every project that followed.