Eutierria
Judith Addison, MFA 2026, Ceramics
Clay is a living material-one that breathes and responds. Forms rise through repetition and gesture—a dialogue between body, material, and environment. Each motion traces attention, and each structure gathers slowly, balancing on the edge of coherence and collapse.
I make by listening to movement: to the sway of my body, to the pulse of the earth beneath me, to the rhythms that guide survival. Structures emerge not by preconception but by the unfolding intelligence of sensation. Rhythm is the medium as much as the form; repetition becomes a kind of presence, a way to synchronize, to hold, to cultivate Eutierria.
Living with a form of epilepsy that alters perception and sensation has heightened my awareness of how physicality not only shapes expression, but reorients reality. Clay becomes a partner in this regulation: its texture and responsiveness create a tactile dialogue that steadies the nervous system and anchors awareness in the present. These temporalities shape my work-structures layer over time, echoing living systems: the branching of coral, the soft architecture of brain matter, the quiet accumulation of growth and repair.
Across sculpture and installation, my work traces the exchange between internal and external environments. It is a practice of embodied ecology: a space where rhythm becomes form, breath becomes structure, and the body learns to settle, respond, and recover. My forms are not objects to master, but spaces to inhabit— entities that embrace cycles of remaining.
"Eutierria" Installation view. Porcelain. Dimensions: Variable.
"Eutierria" Installation view. Porcelain. Dimensions: Variable.
"Eutierria" Installation view. Porcelain. Dimensions: Variable.
"Shoal" Porcelain. 48 x 48 x 168 in.
"Torsion" Porcelain. 48 x 36 x 12 in.
"Atoll" Porcelain. 24 x 24 x 24 in.
"Eutierria" Installation view. Porcelain. Dimensions: Variable. Photo credit: John Carlano
"Gyre" Porcelain. 24 x 24 x 24 in. Photo credit: John Carlano
"Gyre" (detail) Porcelain. 24 x 24 x 24 in. Photo credit: John Carlano
"Eutierria" Installation view. Porcelain. Dimensions: Variable. Photo credit: John Carlano
"Eutrophic" Porcelain. 36 x 12 x 24 in. Photo credit: John Carlano
"Eutierria" Installation view. Porcelain. Dimensions: Variable. Photo credit: John Carlano
"Eutierria" Installation view. Porcelain. Dimensions: Variable. Photo credit: John Carlano
"Eutierria" Installation view. Porcelain. Dimensions: Variable. Photo credit: John Carlano
"Eutierria" Installation view. Porcelain. Dimensions: Variable. Photo credit: John Carlano
"Shoal" (detail) Porcelain. 48 x 48 x 168 in. Photo credit: John Carlano
"Eutierria" Installation view. Porcelain. Dimensions: Variable. Photo credit: John Carlano
"Eutierria" Installation view. Porcelain. Dimensions: Variable. Photo credit: John Carlano
"Shoal" (detail) Porcelain. 48 x 48 x 168 in. Photo credit: John Carlano
Judith Addison is a ceramicist working with clay as a living material that connects mind to body and body to earth. Guided by somatic practices—breathwork, yoga, and intuitive movement—they use sensation as the primary method of making. Living with a form of epilepsy that alters perception, Addison stabilizes through movement by matching rhythmic brain activity with rhythmic body motions. Repetition becomes regulation; cyclical gestures echo and instruct the nervous system’s recalibration. Their research investigates how embodied movement and intuitive ceramic practice converge as a form of external vagus nerve stimulation—ultimately becoming a form of physical healing and a tool for neurological care.
Website: judithaddison.com
Instagram: @judithaddisonn

