Otts & Kulcha is built around three distinct ceramic languages: each rooted in texture and form, yet carrying its own atmosphere. Together, they map a terrain between design, architecture, and sculpture, linked by a shared commitment to material transformation.
Palm Canyon
Color, light, and the horizon line.
Colorful, textured, and rooted in an Italianate sense of play, Palm Canyon pieces carry patinas like Virunga and Grigio Celeste. They speak in watercolor washes and copper greens, recalling volcanic ridges and desert skies.
Palm Canyon balances elegance with brutalist restraint: serveware and vessels that are as functional as they are radiant. This line evokes landscapes, design histories, and a modern palette: ceramics to live with and use.
Basalt
Sculptural, volcanic, and unapologetically brutal.
Basalt pushes ceramics into a darker register: cratered surfaces, metallic patinas, and spiked forms like Morning Star Vases or Space Oddity vessels. These objects hover between relic and artifact, often more sculptural than functional.
Basalt is where the language turns ritualistic: ceramics as ceremony, presence, statement. Patinas such as Auric and Pelagic extend this vocabulary: dark, metallic finishes that suggest cooling lava, lunar surfaces, and post-industrial relics. Expressive, ceremonial, and bold.
Stratae
An environment in ceramic.
Monumental in scale and intent, Stratae translates the Otts & Kulcha language into architectural forms: tile, furniture, and installation work. Surfaces like Megaregolith are imagined across walls, fountains, and site-specific commissions.
Here, clay becomes structure, landscape, geology. Stratae is experimental and spatial: surfaces and forms built to command space, shifting from the intimate to the immersive without losing their tactile resonance.
Limited Editions
Sometimes I'll encounter a new surface or form, and follow it for a short run. These Limited Editions, like Grigio Celeste, extend the language of the main lines while pushing at their edges. Small-batch by intention, they capture moments of experimentation and play.
Each line speaks in its own idiom, but all share a common DNA: modern, textured, and just a little bit brutal.