Vessels

Working primarily in ceramics, my practice explores cultural identity, memory, and displacement through forms inspired by Mongolian architecture and material culture. Growing up between countries, my understanding of culture has been shaped by movement, distance, and personal experience. Rather than preserving these forms as fixed symbols, I reinterpret and transform them to reflect the evolving nature of diasporic identity.

Using clay as a material that holds both permanence and change, I create sculptural vessels that draw from elements of my own culture such as yurt doors and roof structures. By shifting their scale and function, these forms become vessels for cultural memory, objects that carry traces of heritage while acknowledging how identity is continuously reshaped through time, place, and lived experience. My work considers ceramics as a way of sustaining a relationship with my culture, allowing it to be practiced, reimagined, and carried forward through making.