Globules:

Topographies of Dilution

In Globules, blood is employed as a metaphor—sang-mêler, métissage—as a means of articulating difference, nuance, and the layered realities of Black and mixed identities. Casted in porcelain, each piece becomes a vessel for glaze experiments in which multiple strata of “blood red” glaze are superimposed. As the glazes react and transform under fire, surfaces emerge in states of flux: deepening, diluting, fracturing, or blending into chromatic variations that defy reduction to a single tone.

This material process resists the rhetoric of purity, which has historically underpinned essentialist constructions of race, and instead foregrounds the complex gradations through which identity is lived and perceived. In their unstable surfaces, the Globules insist on the visibility of nuance, a visibility too often erased by discourses seeking fixed categories.

By weaving metaphor with material, ceramics is positioned as a site where questions of mixed-race and Black identity can be reconsidered. Here, glaze chemistry becomes not only a technical experiment but also a critical vocabulary, one capable of staging difference without hierarchy, mixture without erasure, and identity as an ongoing process of becoming.