Maddy Inez Leeser

Using sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking, Maddy Inez Leeser investigates the intersections of body, memory, and ancestral healing. Her practice is deeply informed by elemental forces—earth, water, and fire—which she transforms into materials for reflection and creative alchemy. Drawing inspiration from mythology, generational magic, and herbal practices, Leeser uses clay as a vessel to process trauma, ritualize care, and embody resilience. Water emerges as a recurring motif in her work, representing both its physical and symbolic dimensions, from myth and lore to power and transformation. Her ceramic vessels function as votive objects, connecting personal experience with collective histories. They are imbued with traces of ancestral knowledge, memory, and ritual, bridging intimate narratives and larger cultural practices. Leeser’s process emphasizes materiality, texture, and the performative act of making, highlighting transformation as both concept and method. By merging craft, mythology, and embodied experience, her work situates the personal within the universal, creating objects that are simultaneously meditative, tactile, and resonant with histories of healing and alchemy. ...