19/05/2026
🇦🇷 5 Days Symposium | Clay, Collaboration, and Stacking up pieces
What an intense, exhilarating, and deeply rewarding four days of demonstrations and practice at IMCA! .mda
For this first part of my presentation, I start with a stacking-up sculpture experience. Building accumulative scale ceramic forms live can be unpredictable, but doing it right alongside an audience turned it into a good experience. Watching the form grow layer by layer, feeling the collective energy in the room, and sharing the suspense of the build was an unforgettable experience.
Beyond my own project, the absolute highlight of these past few days has been the profound sense of community among the makers. I am in total awe of the other participating artists sharing this space. The works being created around me are nothing short of amazing.
What moves me even more than their immense talent is their spirit of generous sharing—exchanging techniques, ideas, and laughter without hesitation. It is a true masterclass in community. .califano .oficiosdelatierra
None of this would have been possible without the incredible team around me:
To my amazing assistants: Anto, Dani, Sophia, and Lucie —you are all great helping hands. Thank you for your tireless energy, quick thinking, and for keeping me grounded (and the clay perfectly prepped!) during the intense moments of the build.
To the wonderful audience: Thank you for your incredible engagement, your curious questions, and your amazing energy. You didn’t just watch; you breathed life into the room and kept me inspired from the first handful of clay to the very top section.
Argentina’s ceramic community has a heart like no other.
Stay tuned for part two of my week’s work, I am so incredibly grateful.
