Memory Container

2021

mid fired brown stoneware clay- unglazed
15cm x 24cm x 33cm

Iasonas Damianós (b. 1985 in Ilida, Greece) is in his natural element when he works with wild clays and alternative firing, harvesting primal materials, mixing simple ash grazes, making pots with organic forms and firing in improvised kilns.  Currently experimenting and working with an all-natural crog and reddish stoneware clay body that he collects himself at his birthplace in ancient Ilida on western Peloponnese, Greece.

“I have worked as a professional dancer throughout my life. In an attempt to find a universal means of expression to compensate for the ephemeral nature of dance, I stumbled upon ceramics, and I discovered a language that speaks directly into the people’s memories. I have since committed to expressing my sculpting through immortalizing the movement of moving clay in my hands.”

Iasonas Damianós (b. 1985 in Ilida, Greece) is in his natural element when he works with wild clays and alternative firing, harvesting primal materials, mixing simple ash grazes, making pots with organic forms and firing in improvised kilns.  Currently experimenting and working with an all-natural crog and reddish stoneware clay body that he collects himself at his birthplace in ancient Ilida on western Peloponnese, Greece.

“I have worked as a professional dancer throughout my life. In an attempt to find a universal means of expression to compensate for the ephemeral nature of dance, I stumbled upon ceramics, and I discovered a language that speaks directly into the people’s memories. I have since committed to expressing my sculpting through immortalizing the movement of moving clay in my hands.”