Tabula Rasa explores expressive mark-making and drawing directly onto vessel surfaces, allowing the raw, intuitive surface treatment to become the focal point. This piece is constructed using much thicker coils than my other works, suggesting a sense of beginning - a blank canvas, open and unresolved.

The marks applied to this form are symbolic of personal experience. They reflect the layered and often subconscious ways in which life events shape our actions, choices, and expressions. The resulting surface is not planned but emerges intuitively, revealing a visual narrative shaped by memory and emotion.

This idea of a “clean slate” ties directly into my wider practice, where surface becomes a space for reflection, expression, and transformation. The marks I apply are not pre-planned but emerge from lived experience. They represent an intuitive response to memory, emotion, and the unseen processes that shape us over time.

Across my work, I’m interested in how internal state, particularly those tied to anxiety, vulnerability, and resilience, can be made visible through surface and form. In Tabula Rasa, the contrast between the unfinished structure and the layered, spontaneous surface becomes a metaphor for personal evolution: how we are shaped, marked, and ultimately defined by the accumulation of experience.