Alana Wilson, an Australian artist, has always been interested in decay — the ways gravity, heat and time alter and transform. On childhood hikes through the varied landscape of Wellington, New Zealand, where she grew up, Wilson would pocket shells and small animal bones. To the artist, these objects were relics of “the physicality and fragility of the world.”

It’s fitting then, that Wilson’s medium is clay, transformed by fire. “The destruction that happens at 1,260 degrees in the kiln is the same as what happens over time and in volcanic activity,” she says. That violence and unpredictability is central to her studio practice, and it results in delicate vessels that have caught the attention of the design boutique Primary Essentials, which carries her work, and the Australian fashion label Albus Lumen, with whom she recently collaborated on a line of home wares.

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