Early on in the first wave of the pandemic, I purchased an online workshop on making little people, from the amazing artist Vipoo Srivilasa. At the time, I didn’t have access to a ceramic studio, and didn’t have any particular way to create one of these lovely little figures, but I watched and learned. Immediately after enrolling in my first class, and finding my community studio, I began making little monsters.

Jurgen, above, was the proto-monster that started it all. My youngest daughter, Ivy, frequently joins in on my monster-making, and her specialty is creating figures inspired by clowns and odd little creatures.