Key Notes of a Metamorphosis
exhibited at the Artch festival 2025

Lili (Key to Listening to the Sirens)

2025

Ceramic - laser engraving on stoneware with pigments, glazes and locally sourced clay slip

25 x 38 x 6 cm

- private collection -

Lili (Key to Listening to the Sirens) is based on a 1926 photo portrait of Lili Elbe (1882 – 1931)

Artist, painter, trans woman, and one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery at Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin. The Nazis came for the institute on May 6, 1933, and burned more than 20,000 books, some of them rare copies that had helped provide a historiography for gender nonconforming people.

Chrysalis

2025

Ceramic - stoneware with glazes, pigments and gold lustre

44x 44x 10 cm

Inquiries - Art Volt Collection

Chrysalis is an analogy between the caterpillar transformation into butterfly and the gender affirming process that trans people go through during their life and the feeling of becoming. It also refers to a personal story of the artist childhood where she saved a caterpillar from a vegetable garden where it would have been killed and took care of it until it finally transformed into a butterfly and flew free

Listening to the Sirens (Sophie)

2025

Ceramic - laser engraving on stoneware with glazes, locally sourced clay slip, gold lustre and mother of pearl

25 x 38 x 6 cm

- private collection -

Listening to the Sirens (Sophie) is dedicated to Sophie Xeon, music prodigy who passed in 2021. A music sheet of her song Immaterial and butterfly wings engraved with laser around an antique siren shaped cutting painted with gold edges.

Mother of Pearls (The Countess)

2025

Ceramic - laser engraving on stoneware with glazes and mother of pearl luster

25 x 38 x 6 cm

- private collection -

Mother of Pearls (The Countess) is depicting a self-portrait taken from Pauline Berloget autobiography The Secret Confessions of a Parisian : The Countess, 1850-1871 where she describes her life living as a trans woman during the Second French Empire. She was a signer, artist and writer who was prominent in Parisian society. In her book she drew several portraits of herself, and other members of her queer community tribade sisters.

Blooming Ship of Us I

2025

Ceramic - stoneware with pigments, glazes, locally sourced clay slip, gold luster, mother of pearl and metal rings

40 x 28 x 25 cm

Inquiries - Art Volt Collection

Blooming Ship Of Us is a celebration of the full spectrum of gender identity, depicted on its surfaces. The work explores what it means to “break the mould” and grow out of, and with, the materials that make up oneself. Moulded wet tiles were joined together to create a unique, organic vessel form, which was then glazed and embellished at its edges with gold and jewellery.