Kaïa Etezadi is a pottery maker and teacher, occasional writer, and herbalist-in-training. She is drawn toward explorations in materiality and fascinated by the systematic patterns that order our universe, a curiosity which extends into her study of medical herbalism, natural materials, and traditional craft methods.

Kaïa works to explore the natural synergy of seemingly opposed forces, using clay and words to investigate the spaces in between.


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clay

01 functional ware
02 vases
03 material research
    glaze library 
    traceware
   

paper

01 the persistence of touch 
02 relational waters
03 I used to be an island

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As Home, as Threshold, as Body, as Guide is an embodied research project, a prompt-filled artist book, and a labour of love, written and designed in collaboration with Sydney McManus. 

Edition of 12 hand-bound books printed on japanese Kozo paper.

2022More than half of our body is water. Water in motion, pouring in and flushing out. As breath is drawn in, water seeps into the lungs. Water that cycles, seethes, oozes: uncontrollably, unwittingly. We are water in constant flux. Our water is never ours, never the same, uncontainable. The boundaries of our bodies dissolve, overlap, absorb. We have always been water, with(in) water, pushed from womb to humid air to stream. A part of and kin to, we exist both with and within water.

As home, as threshold, as body, as guide invites us to recognize our intimacies with water, its symbolic and tangible powers, its boundlessness, and the active collaboration taking place with(in) water/human community. It asks us to acknowledge the invisible waters within us, the undertow of our somatic balance, and the perpetual seeping beyond our bodily boundaries. 


photo documentation by Sydney McManus