Sarina is a Florida born artist currently working and living in Chicago.

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My practice as an artist is rooted in the exploration of movement, pattern, joining, and weaving, all underlaid with the intention of reflection. I create mainly ceramic pieces and drawings, while occasionally incorporating other mediums. My process of making is that I notice something and gradually, by spending a great deal of time with it, an evolving thought informed by my observation becomes a new object.

The creating of textiles, loaves of bread, or ceramic vessels is not passive; it requires skill, cooperation, patience, energy, intention, time, and tools. I’m interested in these objects that are beautiful in their creating.

In my work, I draw inspiration from ordinary encounters with these objects: a piece of fence from a walk, the rough surface of a light post, the precision and slowness required for making a glaze, a petal, a tool. These observations have guided my conviction that creating something—a hammer, a loaf of bread—is far from passive. It demands skill, cooperation, patience, energy, and intention, all layered within time and space.

This process is the opposite of a movie where everything is visible. Unlike a film, an object captures time in a way that can’t immediately be detected. Yet the hidden presence of time and history conveys this deep narrative of intentionality. Through my ceramics, I explore the act of freezing interaction and movement—moments of transformation and purpose suspended in clay.

​Ultimately, my work is a meditation on the layering of time, within an object, the ways in which actions, decisions, and energy accumulate into a present moment that, while fixed in form, carries with it an entire history of invisible acts. My practice, whether in ceramic or drawing, is an attempt to explore and honor this quiet complexity—the hidden story of what it means to create and exist in time.