The second of four works created for the inaugural exhibition Making Place Matter, marking The Clay Studio’s new South Kensington Philadelphia building opening in April, 2022. This piece is an abstraction of a small plate housed in the collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art depicting the historic Philadelphia Waterworks site, today’s location of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Using gold luster to mirror the viewer back into the work itself, Philadelphia Waterworks places the past with the present and examines how history informs our understanding of place today.

Year: 2021

Materials: 65 hand-thrown and hand-painted porcelain plates with underglaze, glaze, stain and 22 karat gold luster

Dimensions: 70h x 81w x 2.5d inches