For our new edition with Brooklyn-based ceramicist, Cody Hoyt we began by working from digital scans that Hoyt made directly on the scanner bed of the surfaces from one of his faceted vases. This new series of oral vessels are a departure for Hoyt, whose forms have typically featured purely abstract, patterned surfaces.

The vessels are folded from rolled ats of clay; a process that takes literally the idea of surface becoming form. The patterned surface of the ats are generated through using masonry colors to dye the clay numerous di erent hues, then either sandwich together, marble or slice up and inlay together and atten them through the clay roller. The technique of combining separate colors to create a patterned surface is perfectly re ected in the process of color application inherent to silkscreen printing.

Cody Hoyt shares a background in printmaking and previously worked for the renowned Gemini G.E.L in Los Angeles. He has since turned his attention to producing work in ceramic and is now an incredibly skillful, self-taught master of the medium. Situated in a fascinating and productive nexus between sculpture, ceramics, furniture and industrial design his studio output is incredibly varied but he is most noted for his patterned vessels.