Hi! I’m Sandra.
The hands of Asperitas
When I was 17 years old I ended up almost by chance in a cultural exchange to Beijing organized by my school. There, I tried pottery for the first time and, inevitably, I fell in love with it. I didn’t immediately give in to pottery though, as life brought me elsewhere for a while.
For work, study or whim, I travelled a lot and lived in many different countries, among which Spain, Germany, France, and Turkey. It was in Portugal that I finally stopped and learnt how to sculpt and to work on the potter’s wheel, while I worked as a tourist guide.
The pandemic brought me back home to my hometown in Italy, Gorizia, where I worked as an assistant at a local pottery studio and where, in 2021, I opened my own studio.
Whats does Asperitas mean?
Asperitas means many a thing.
In latin it designates something rough, like the clays I like to use, with stone-like texture and coarse to the touch. It can also describe a composition that is rich in movement and contrasts, where harsh parts are balanced with soft ones. So am I and so is my artistic production: complex and different in its many parts.
Finally, the word may refer to a kind of clouds as well: the Undulatus Asperatus, a rather rare kind of formation, which involves storm-like clouds naturally dissipating and leaving a clear sky.
This is also my wish for every person that gives a home to one of my pieces or that visits my lab: a sky that always clears up.
What can we
do together
Classes
Would you like to try
the throwing wheel?
Coworking
Come in my lab whenever you please
and work independently.
Products
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one-of-a-kind items