Porcelain and Stone



Porcelain and Stone

About The Artist

Kimberly Huestis • Boston, MA
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My background in architecture and 3D graphics and animation has led me to show what the human hands are capable of without high-tech assistance. I have been a rock carver/sculptor first, in my decades of training. With thousands of hours of practice and questioning standard process: creating my own "stones" in porcelain has been a journey in chemistry, and understanding of geology in working with other stones. Craft centers me as a small human, to celebrate the possibilities and spur invention.



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Q&A with the Artist

Tell us how your work is made.

Pieces are creating from my own porcelain recipe, mixed, kneaded, and then sculpted, carved, fired -- then re-carved if necessary, fired if melting 22 gold to them and then set in hardware based on the design of the porcelain piece. All of my pieces are fired and set in my studio space (I have two!) The other studio I keep is where I offer workshops and a glimpse into the exact chemistry going on to make each piece.


What makes you passionate about the medium you work with?

I passionate about the materials I work with because not only does the porcelain bring me closer to my mother and my Asian heritage, but the metals I choose are carefully selected due to my severe metal sensitivities growing up as a child with constant dermatitis issues. Having an obsession with material science, sculpture, and the chemistry of art is a full circle practice of my background in architecture applied to the human wearing experience.

What is something unique about you or your practice?

I think folks don't expect or realize how strong porcelain is as a material. They immediately think of a large vessel they have broken, when the physical truth is that it is equal to a sapphire in strength, and yes, that too at a large scale is easy to break. I have thrown pieces, dropped them, as demonstrations in the past and it was always a great shock that people don't realize what they don't actually know. You would need to be truly interested or passionate about the material to realize how amazing it truly is and is woman made since we learned to work with fire.