A pale speckled bottle on sunlit stone, its shadow stretched long beside it.

artisan series

2026 · video + stills

An ongoing series on people who make things with their hands, exploring presence, process and meditative craft.

A tattooed forearm setting a small vessel down against a bare plaster wall.
Finished vessels gathered on a plaster ledge — ribbed, dotted and smooth forms side by side.
A hand reaching into an arched plaster niche holding small dark bottles.
The maker standing in a colonnade, a vessel cradled in each arm.
Two hands cradling a white vessel with a scalloped rim and a dotted surface.
The maker holding a large ribbed vessel against his chest, a smaller one in his hand.
A ribbed vessel lifted in darkness above a wide conical bowl.
The maker leaning down to arrange magenta flowers in a tall ribbed vase.
Hands turning a round, textured jug in the light.
The maker against a plaster wall, holding a vessel filled with pink flowers.
The maker in profile at a window, vessels held in both arms.
A figure and a white dog in a bright doorway at the end of a dark corridor.
A pale speckled bottle on sunlit stone, its shadow stretched long beside it.
A basket-textured vessel standing in a shaft of light, casting a long shadow.
A wide conical bowl at the edge of the light, half in shadow.
A round-bellied vessel with two handles, lit from the side, shadow across the stone.
A small spouted vessel with looped handles on a lit ledge.
The maker standing against plaster, a white vessel in one hand and cut flowers in the other.

credits

direction, photography — laura ilisii

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