Amara Abdal Figueroa

b. 1990 Ponce, Puerto Rico. Agroceramist, artist and environmental advocate. now I focus on things so small I cannot see them • studying clay on the island to filter water • the past to understand our present • creating ceramic works that are immediately fragments • productive failures • an archeology by the living for the living • tools for the study of a longer lasting ceramic object • the beginnings of locally producing a water filter • in wake of the accelerated landgrab • with clay from under our feet • in different scales • from politics of isolation • articulating exchanges across the archipielago • production between islands • a space that we generate • infrastructure that we create • a network of kilns • a vessel that holds what we ingest • separating pathogens from water • vacuums that trap bacterias and viruses • in the meandering paths of a porous filter • tortuosity • like a winding river • sawdust burns out of clay • leaving small cavities • this is now potable.