For me, vessels have pretty much always functioned as gendered stand-ins: serving as surrogates, making their way across the minefield of childhood (both my own, and my daughters’). In the post-pandemic years, I made such vessels with clay--one of the first materials I ever tried, only to put it down for decades. In each of the works you see in this group, dating from 2023 and 2024, an imaginary fold in the fabric of time has brought together forms from different eras and cultures. Meeting each other and becoming one, parts of their shapes conjoin to make something new, in a lighthearted bit of historical legerdemain.