Formed from the same clay as Earth and Water (the other two pieces in the Elemental Alchemy triptych), yet lifted through openness and restraint, Air was shaped to hold light rather than mass.

Air is the unseen breath between all things — the quiet force that moves through stillness, the whisper that awakens motion. In this vessel, I sought to capture that invisible energy — not as emptiness, but as presence. Its translucent veils and soft, ascending forms reflect the way breath carries both life and impermanence.

The Alchemy of Air

Beneath the surface, chemistry and spirit converge. Layers of oxide and glaze hang between heat and breath — each one shifting in the kiln’s fire to reveal a soft blue haze edged in fire.

Into this alchemy, I fold the ashes of fallen oak limbs gathered from my own land — remnants of trees that once breathed the same air I do. Their transformation through flame becomes both offering and return: the breath of the oak carried forward in mineral bloom.

These veils are not painted, but grown — born from minerals drawn toward oxygen in the air itself. The firing becomes a meditation on transformation: earth becoming breath, wood becoming ash, metal becoming illumination.

For me, Air represents release — the exhale that follows creation, the trust in what cannot be held or seen.

It is a reminder that even in stillness, movement exists, and that beauty often lives in what we cannot see or touch.