VESSELDOM – CERAMICS 2025

As 2025 comes to a close, I am wrapping up my second year of intensive work in ceramics. This year I have been focused almost exclusively on creating vessels. You can view (and purchase) the entire collection here.

I wanted to celebrate the essence of vesseldom. A vessel, at its core, is designed to perform the practical function of containing something. But each vessel in this series is an entity with a personality and a story, an entire world unto itself. Its persona informs how it holds, cradles, and presents an Other, and that which it could contain reflexively transforms its identity.

I have had the time of my life coaxing these objects out of lumps of clay. My arsenal of techniques is ever growing, and the works you see on the following pages were created with a combination of wheel throwing, hand-building and surface design that I continue to dial in with my own secret sauce.

This series reflects a transition in my life, in my art, and perhaps in the greater macrocosm. I spend a lot of time thinking about AI, and using AI. As the most powerful tool in the history of humanity, it has been like a tidal wave of transformation, a full deluge wiping out the old world and leaving us in a vast sea of the Unknown. 

An artist can only respond to the world around them. While I continue working in video and digital technology, I have had to loosen my grip entirely as these mediums – and their meaning – shift and change. Working in ceramics has been literally grounding for me, a form of expression that is ancient, tangible, and of the Earth. 

Please enjoy this lineup of bold fine art objects created singularly by hand, a year’s worth of my own time as a vessel forever preserved.

Sarah Zucker

December 2nd, 2025