Expansive Peace, Installation 55 x 86 inch., Handbuilt, Stoneware and glaze, 2025
Arts Warehouse, “Modular,” Delray Beach, Florida (2025)
Expansive Peace comprises seventeen ceramic surfaces glazed as a cohesive wall installation. The work aims to convey the grounding, healing, and reassuring meditative color experience that ceramic artist Landis Carey had in the spring of 2025, which fluctuated between lavender, eggplant, periwinkle, and a brilliant, pure white light. The artist experiences synesthesia during her color visions. She feels the color she sees. Her meditation, which inspired Expansive Peace, was a pure expression of grounding peace and occurred during a particularly trying time. The work was hand-built from dark brown stoneware and color-blocked with underglazes before glazes were layered to create a fluctuating color palette, ranging from dark to light and from dense to translucent. The color experience was short-lived but is seared in her visual and emotional memory.