This installation for Dazzle of Darkness, titled Pleiades, features seven tiles bearing the names of each of the sisters: Electra, Halcyon, Celaeno, Merope, Asterope, Taygete and Maia. The tiles are 21.5" x 21.5" x 2" and are made of white stoneware, silver luster, and silver leaf.

Seen in winter as silver-blue, the Pleiades constellation is steeped in mythology and associated with healing and connection. Cast into the sky by their father, Atlas, to shield them from Orion’s pursuit, the seven sisters remain forever fixed above us. Bound together as a constellation, they are united by fate as much as by form and familial ties. 

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My Pleiades series features seven upturned diamonds of silver turf, each bearing the name of a sister star. Suspended above an earthen site, these tiles mirror the fallen leaves of specific trees—ash, alder, oak, hornbeam, silver birch, laurel, and lime. These trees, once vital to shipbuilding, enabled journeys across oceans. Once rooted trees made uprooting possible. Much of my work, shaped in the weightiness of clay, explores escape narratives that paradoxically reinscribe freedom within forms of constraint. The myth of the Pleiades resonates deeply: the sky, often a symbol of liberation, becomes a prison for these seven women, held eternally in their luminous suspension.