Meet the Homecoming Collection

Homecoming began with a question I couldn't stop sitting with as I was going through my own healing journey: what if the things that changed us weren't the parts to fix, but the parts to honor?

Every piece in this collection is altered by hand while the clay is still soft. Pressed, held, squeezed at its most vulnerable stage. The clay remembers that contact as it dries, hardens, and moves through fire. What was once a moment of pressure becomes part of the vessel's permanent identity.

When you hold a Homecoming piece, your hands find the altered place naturally, the exact spot I pressed at a specific moment in time. Your fingers return there every time without thinking. Like they already know where to go. Like coming home.

Homecoming is the prequel to Rituals. Rituals is what you return to once you've settled in, an intentional system built for the long run. Homecoming is what comes first. The arrival. The honoring of everything that shaped you into who you are. Together they form a complete arc: first you arrive, then you live, unapologetically.

The two collections are even fired in different kiln environments, and that's intentional.

The Rituals collection is oxidation fired. Controlled, consistent, replicable. The glazes behave predictably and the pieces share a family resemblance.

Homecoming is reduction fired. In a reduction kiln, oxygen is deliberately restricted during the firing. The flame pulls oxygen from the clay and glazes themselves, triggering chemical reactions that cannot be fully controlled or anticipated. Five degrees of temperature difference can bring out an entirely different expression of color from the exact same glaze. Placement in the kiln matters. The atmosphere at any given moment matters. Two pieces of the same glaze fired side by side will not match. They will never match.

And because I glaze each piece twice, once all over, and once more while holding it at the alteration point, leaving my handprint, the glaze breaks differently where my hands touched it every single time. No two moments of contact are the same. So no two pieces are either.

Each piece in Homecoming is genuinely, completely its own. Not in the way handmade things always vary slightly. Truly its own, shaped by the same hands, the same materials, the same fire, and still entirely unrepeatable.

Just like each of us.

Which is why Homecoming pieces are offered as mystery glazes. When you order, you receive a piece in a surprise colorway, chosen by the fire, finished by my hands, and sent to you. You won't know exactly what you're getting, and that's the whole point. Something that exists only once in the world, and now in your home.

A vessel as unique as the story you carry.

These pieces are made for daily use, for the quiet act of returning to yourself, again and again, in the shape you actually are.

Not the shape you had before. Not the shape you wish you had.

This one. The one you earned.