Photograph by Gaspar Gorodisch

Lydia Lee Mixon

I am a maker currently based in North Carolina with a fondness for porcelain and wood firing.

I am curious about all things.

While my exploration of clay takes me in many different directions, they all seem to pull from the same thread: function.

As a little girl I was fascinated with collecting treasures. I remember sneaking into my Grandmothers room, opening her vanity to find the artifacts she collected throughout her life.

My relationship with objects, a generational and cultural shift from stewardship to consumption, my innate desire to create and collect beautiful things to add to this world - children and pots alike, all inform my making.

My work is quiet.

Not quite in the way that it is unheard, quiet in the way it does not need to be loud to be heard.

Quiet and firm, soft and strong. It is like me. 

It looks like me and talks like me but we wear different clothes.