I was born and raised in Varna, Bulgaria, and currently live and work in New Paltz, New York. Trained in photography and the art market, I work as a photography appraiser while clay remains a space of freedom, an intuitive, playful practice outside expectation.

I make objects that sit between functional and sculptural, guided by curiosity and a belief in living with art and design, objects that take up space, invite touch, and quietly shape our emotional worlds. Drawn to biomorphic forms and soft curves, my work explores contrasts of hard and soft, dense and hollow, opaque and luminous. These shapes often evoke organic fragments or imagined beings, carrying the feeling of something discovered rather than designed.

From an early age, I was fascinated by the mythologies of ancient civilizations and by the ways objects across time imagine other worlds, both ancestral and futuristic. I’m drawn to ceremonial figurines, ancient artifacts, and representations of humans, animals, and unknown forms across time.

Clay, one of the oldest artistic materials, carries a deep sense of history and discovery. My work sits somewhere between artifact and invention, both familiar and otherworldly, suggesting hidden narratives and ambiguous meanings. Perforations, openings, and hollow interiors allow light, air, and shadow to become part of the form, animating an inanimate material through touch, gesture, and play. The resulting objects are tactile, whimsical vessels that bridge craft and design. They are meant to be lived with, not explained, inviting intimacy, a touch of humor, and a sense of ephemeral wonder.