Sanika
Sanika Divekar is an architect and ceramicist based in Bath, UK. Originally from Mumbai, her practice is deeply influenced by the city’s dynamic urban landscape and her Indian heritage. Her work explores the intersection of material memory, environmental transformation, and human impact, often using clay as a narrative tool. She works with wild clay, foraged matter, and industrial waste, creating ceramic vessels that reflect the tension between permanence and impermanence. Sanika’s work blends traditional forms with contemporary concerns, encouraging reflection on the evolving relationship between people, materials, and the Earth.
My practice explores the narrative and emotional power of materials, focusing on transformation, presence, and the marks we leave behind. I'm particularly drawn to clay for its ability to record touch, erosion, and time acting as both witness and archive.
Working with wild clay, foraged matter, and found man-made debris, I use processes such as marking, tearing, embedding, and stitching to echo natural cycles of erosion and repair. These gestures reflect the fragility of permanence and the tension between what endures and what disappears.
I'm inspired by materials in flux, especially hybrid forms like Plastiglomerates, which embody the collision of human intervention and the natural world.
My ceramic vessels exist between sculpture and function— quiet, tactile records of environmental change and human memory. They invite reflection on what we preserve, what fades, and how craft can carry emotional and environmental imprints across time, becoming vessels for memory and transformation.
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