A tactile exploration of menstruation and storytelling, where vessel forms act as carriers of embodied knowledge, transforming personal and collective experiences into material narratives. Working with clay as a soft, responsive material shaped through touch, the forms emerge through handbuilding, allowing asymmetries, folds, and openings to echo bodily processes such as expansion, release, and containment. Rounded, swelling silhouettes reference the womb and cycles of growth, while the hollow interior suggests both holding and transformation.

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Surface imagery introduces a symbolic language that extends these narratives. Motifs such as moon phases reference cyclical time and the rhythms of the menstruating body, while figures of menstruators holding hands appear as gestures of solidarity, care, and collective support. These symbols function as visual anchors, connecting individual experience to shared, communal understanding. Glaze is used as a dynamic layer that pools, cracks, and settles unpredictably, reinforcing ideas of fluidity and transformation. Through the interplay of material, form, and symbolism, the work positions menstruation not as something hidden, but as something held, witnessed, and collectively narrated.