The material Alma (b. 2000) most often works with is ceramics. Clay offers her the purest path from thought and feeling to her hands. Her hands become an extension of her mind as she creates. This determines the process and allows her hands to intuitively search until she decides how the form should remain. In its living form—through its various stages of manipulation—clay is the material that most resembles the body: in motion, soft and strong, yet vulnerable. The intuitive process often leads her to create objects that reflect a state or feeling. She likes to capture the ceramics right then, when they feel alive—whether serious or playful. This is the stage she finds most interesting to express: the friction between melancholy and cheerfulness. She tells stories about childhood, the fragility of relationships, and everyday phenomena that take shape as whimsical animals and objects inspired by the botanical and the animated.