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Grounded in black stoneware mined from my home region of Donetsk, this body of work explores how objects and matter can speak, remember, and resist when human language breaks down in the wake of war, trauma, and displacement. Refusing a simplified or comforting celebration of identity, my work treats clay as an active "actant"—carrying a geological and somatic truth that resists political and physical erasure. Through a dynamic collaboration between material, technology, and my hands, I synthesise the raw frequencies of Kyiv’s air raid sirens into physical cymatic forms, layering hand-built stoneware with asemic writing, politicised orthography ("Ґ" and "Ї"), and fractured translations of daily survival. By rejecting clinical mechanical precision in favour of direct physical touch, my sculptures stand as an enduring, material archive of personal grief and collective memory.
Polina Ceramics