Artisan Profile: Lily from Drifting Spirits

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Meet Lily

You wouldn’t think you’d find serene, playful earth spirits gently lifting your mood as you browse through Drifting Spirits. Call us fanciful, but there’s something beautiful and peaceful about Lily’s ceramic sculptures. Oozing personality, each little sculpture has distinct expressions leaving you with the impression there’s more to them than their beauty.

Then there’s Lily’s ongoing quest of “playing with clay to save the world”. How could we not resist asking them a few questions about their creations and process? After a little research on our part, here’s how the conversation went.

You create Shinto and earth-inspired ceramics to help generate peace in this world. What made you set upon this path? Did it change your journey in producing ceramics, or did it lead to you taking up ceramics? Please share about your journey in ceramics and how it led to your Drifting Spirits store.

Kami are Japanese Shinto spirits of various places and spaces if we understand them correctly (please correct us if we’re wrong). Tell us why you’ve chosen Shinto kami (spirits) as your subjects.

Your ceramic process is also Japanese—raku firing. How does this differ from more common methods of finishing a ceramic piece?

Your works are extremely whimsical and deceptively simple in appearance, yet each spirit has a different expression and personality despite their size and similarities in shape. How do you achieve this individual uniqueness—divine inspiration, creative process, or something else?

With your home in France, what made you join the Artisans Cooperative? What does being a member of the Coop mean to you?