Sivan
Sternbach

My pieces are continuously changing in details and form. I take deep pleasure in entering my studio every morning as if it is my first day there. My ceramics are the purest expression of how I live my life. I use everything I see, touch, and taste as inspiration, especially their playful and tactile characteristics. My pieces reflect my natural appetite for freedom and connection to the present moment. As a professional pastry chef, trained and certified by the French Culinary Institute in NYC, I feel a strong connection between making pastry and shaping clay – both naturally similar and endlessly satisfying processes. I draw deep pleasure from watching people’s unabashed reactions to my pieces. My floating balloons – in various sizes, colors, and levels of inflation – seem to trigger viewers’ positive childhood memories. I’ve come to realize they have the potential to capture a person’s fleeting, happy memory and render it timeless.