BELVALKAR
DEPARTMENT
CERAMICS
I build slowly and intentionally in the hope of assembling collectively through the accumulation of objects.
Hand-building, slab-rolling, mold-making. Pinching, cutting, carving, drawing, glazing, firing. Breathing, listening, hearing, observing, introspecting, expressing.
Studio processes correspond with my efforts and desires to convey care and preservation for and through the objects I make.
My relationship with working in clay has been personal, emotional, spiritual, and symbiotic.
A decade of making in this medium started in India, moving to Vermont for a BA at Bennington College, an internship in Kansas City, a studio apprenticeship on the Big Island of Hawai’i, a year of working at a ceramic business in Los Angeles and finally landing up in Michigan at Cranbrook—this journey has been exhilarating and exhausting.
After eight years of being in the United States, I hope that the future takes me home.
2024, 80 ceramic tiles, mason stain, underglaze, acrylic paint, 96” x 36” x 14”
2025, Black clay, white clay, white glaze, gold luster, 44” x 44” x 36"
2024, Glazed and unglazed ceramic Installation in Flate Space
2024, Speckled clay, white glaze, 19” x 19” x 36”