Chang Liu is a ceramist based in San Francisco. After a career in engineering, she's excited to explore the temporality and unpredicability in clay. She is deeply inspired by Asian ceramic and painting traditions. In her work, the familiar mountains and beloved landscapes of her childhood are reinterpreted on clay, transformed into vessels that carry both memory and quiet echoes of the past. The silhouettes recall traditional Chinese ceramics and sacred artifacts — objects once made not only for use, but for communion with forces beyond the visible world.

Each piece is wheel-thrown, hand built and layered with glazes that invite chance interactions between color, gravity, and texture. Through cone 10 reduction firing, fluid and atmospheric effects emerge. In this process, the kiln becomes an active collaborator — an elemental presence that, like ritual fire in earlier traditions, completes what the hand begins.

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