"Based in Columbus, Ohio, Olivia Pi’ilani’s practice is a spiritual and hyper-personal meditative experience, seeking to unravel the intimate relationship between one’s hands and the earth. Drawing from both indigenous coil-building methods of southwest North America and the ancient pottery traditions of China, this synthesis of classical techniques serves more than a technical process, but as a form of honor and conversation with the lineage of craftsmanship that precedes her. Olivia’s goal as a ceramicist is to create vessels that highlight and pay respect to the ancestral and ceremonial tradition of storytelling through themes of fantasy, romanticism, grief, generational trauma, and the interconnection between nature and the human experience.”