“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work
 on the images imprisoned within you.”
— Rilke

PROCESS

Demetriou makes monumental ceramic sculpture—work that asks for weight, time, and risk. It begins in drawing and proportion, in the quiet decisions of what must stand and what must yield. The forms are engineered to carry their own mass, shaped by many hands but held to a single vision.

The clay is mixed in-house and prepared for scale. Walls are thick. Structures are planned. Nothing is casual. These pieces are built to endure weather, gravity, and years. They are made with the knowledge that they must pass through something greater than us.

The work is fired in a rare hybrid wood and gas kiln—one of the largest privately owned kilns in the region. Very few artists fire monumental ceramic work in atmospheric conditions like this. For days, temperatures rise beyond 2,000°F as wood, flame, and ash move through the chamber. We guide the heat, but we do not command it.

At this scale, firing is not a finish—it is a trial. Once sealed, the kiln cannot be paused or negotiated with. The sculpture must endure the long crossing of flame and emerge changed. What returns carries the authority of having survived something elemental.