Naomi Peterson, Artist in Residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Naomi Peterson creates handbuilt ceramic objects to inspire intentionality in order to highlight the importance of human connection. Utilizing material and process, she creates contexts between objects to better understand and define the connections between seemingly disparate things. Integrating both analog and digital methods such as hand building, laser cutting, knitting, 3D printing, and felting, Peterson explores what craft means in the digital age. Her handcrafted, ornate pedestals represent the gravity of a perceived circumstance, such as making a promise. Trust, like a ceramic object, can be broken as well as repaired, though the result will most certainly be altered. Through these contexts, she examines her own experiences and observations in building relationships facilitated by objects and rituals.