i make by being and I am by making

A way of paying attention

Clay has been part of my life since I was seven. It remains one of the ways I think, feel and understand the world.

But I'm not interested in staying within one material, one discipline or one definition of what I do.

My work moves between ceramics, sculpture, installation, weaving, writing and other forms of exploration. Some ideas become objects. Others grow into spaces, experiences or something I don't yet have a name for.

I'm happy not to know too soon.

Many truths, one becoming

I've learned from many people along the way. Some I might call masters, others mentors, and some perhaps never realised how much they taught me.

There has never been just one person showing me the way. My education has happened through encounters: with people, with objects, with environments, with the things I make and the things I stumble upon.

Each person I've learned from carried something of their own… a way of seeing, a way of making, a truth they had arrived at through their own life and practice.

I take something from each encounter, sometimes consciously, sometimes without even noticing. I question, absorb, disagree, connect the dots and let things settle.

And slowly, through all of this, I shape my own understanding.

Not a truth borrowed from someone else, but one that keeps taking form through the way I live, see, feel and make.

Here it is. This is also it.

Things are always becoming

I grew up in Argentina and made Aotearoa New Zealand home in 2013. Along the way, I've found myself drawn not only to making things, but to creating spaces where things can happen between people.

Ayni Artisans began online, with a more traditional approach to sharing and selling handmade ceramics. Over time, it grew beyond the screen and made room for a physical ceramics studio on Karangahape Road… a place in the heart of the city to gather, make, share and connect.

I'm proud of what took shape there: the people who came through the door, the things they discovered through working with clay, and the space we shared. It became an important chapter in my life and practice, one that shaped me in ways I couldn't have anticipated.

The physical studio closed in September 2026, but the impulse behind it, hasn't.

It has simply found new ways to move.

Ayni Alchemy

Ayni is a Quechua word for reciprocity — the Andean principle of mutual exchange, of giving and receiving. It speaks to the flow of energy between all that exists, around us and within us.

It was the inspiration for the exchange I first envisioned: artisans coming together, making alongside one another, each shaping and being shaped by the other.

Alchemy came later.

Perhaps through the fire within me — the energy that transforms me, and through me, the things I touch and the worlds I create.

That part of the story is still unfolding.

The door is open.