Yasaman Ghorbani

Yasaman Ghorbani fires each stoneware panel with a seam of thinner clay pressed into it beforehand, engineering exactly where the piece will crack in the kiln rather than leaving it to chance. Once cooled, she reassembles the fragments offset by a few millimetres, so the crack line stays visible as a dark seam of exposed edge rather than being hidden by regrouting. She trained under a ceramicist in Tehran who worked exclusively in raku before developing her own high-fire process, and still tests every new clay body on small trial tiles before committing a full panel to the kiln. A single wall relief can take two firings and up to a week of reassembly. Her reliefs reach ATG through a screened export partner.

Yasaman Ghorbani fires stoneware panels until they crack along deliberately weakened seams, then reassembles them slightly offset — wall reliefs built from a controlled version of breaking.

Toronto

That breaking, if you engineer exactly where it happens, can be a building method rather than an accident.