About Jayne King

My ceramic studio practice aims to encourage conversations about the nature of memory, the haunted space, and the chain of connection through the reconsideration of the heirloom porcelain object. Currently, I’ve been working on a series of memory amphorae that explore the human desire to safeguard personal narrative and nostalgia, the history of ceramic objects as vessels for storage and preservation, and the ways in which Jewish tradition informs how I’ve come to understand my relationship to my family’s past and my consequential present. These vessels exalt the unseeable things underfoot and consider the intersecting relationships between social invisibility, utilitarian craft history, and the geological mechanisms that both govern and record activity on earth.