This large vessel Exoteric, formed from rotten Ash, stands as a negotiation on duality, paired with its sister piece Esoteric. Together, they explore the outward and inward dimensions of existence; what is revealed and what is hidden. The Ash, waterlogged and febrile, carries the memory of dissolution, saturated histories, and the gentle collapse of integrity.

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This transience mirrors the Artist, who inhabits the space between strength and dissolution. The vessel’s many characters emerge depending on perspective: from one angle, it resembles a classical urn, dignified and resolved; from another, it is grotesquely ravaged, marked by wounds of the wood’s decomposition.

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Polished cherry end caps anchor the piece, deliberate termini to the haggard form, underscoring a tension between refinement and disarray. This duality becomes a reflection of the Artist’s own fractured wholeness; an interplay of beauty, weakness. The dualities of refinement and ruin, gentility and febrility, open a dialogue between perception and form—what remains of and what is beyond.