Fragment & Form

Fired clay pulled apart and reassembled — not repaired, but reconsidered.

Mariia Orlova works in fragments. Based in New Orleans, she builds her vessels from shards of clay brought back into structure, the joins left visible, the breaks part of the design. The result is an object that reads differently from every angle: sometimes vessel, sometimes ruin, always resolved.

Her practice is rooted in a single idea — defragmentation as craft. Not the erasure of damage, but its integration. Each piece carries the evidence of its own making: the pressure of a hand, the decision to stop, the moment the form became itself.

These are the first pieces Orel Ceramics has made for Home&Me. A new collection is in progress.