Delilah

Delilah is a life-sized ceramic cow sculpture that explores the intimate bonds we form with the animals in our care. By giving her a name—as we do with beloved pets—this piece transforms an agricultural relationship into something deeply personal, making the inevitable fragility and loss profoundly emotional.

The work embodies the paradox of stewardship: we care for these creatures, name them, know them, yet must also accept their impermanence. Delilah's ceramic form speaks to this vulnerability—the material itself capable of breaking, requiring careful reconstruction.

The act of piecing the parts back together becomes a meditation on memory and preservation, a physical manifestation of the effort we make to hold onto the bonds that matter. Each reassembled fragment represents the work of remembering, of refusing to let connection dissolve completely.

Through Delilah, we're invited to consider how naming creates meaning, how care creates attachment, and how loss demands we choose between forgetting and the painstaking work of preservation.

dimensions: 72" x 24" x 24"

ceramic, glaze, epoxy

2013