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Coin Can #3 We're Laughing with You by Camilla Sturm

$80.00

Coin Can 3 We’re Laughing with You by Camilla Sturm reinterprets the familiar soda can as a ceramic object that bridges utility, storytelling, and permanence. Hand-built from stoneware, the vessel retains the recognizable cylindrical form of a can while replacing its disposable nature with the durability and weight of fired clay. The surface is covered with expressive faces, symbols, and handwritten details rendered in earthy brown tones, creating a playful yet enigmatic visual language that invites closer observation. Like the other works in the Coin Cans series, Coin Can 3 examines the relationship between accumulation and loss, permanence and impermanence, encouraging reflection on what we choose to keep, protect, and ultimately let go.

Coin Can 3 We’re Laughing with You by Camilla Sturm reinterprets the familiar soda can as a ceramic object that bridges utility, storytelling, and permanence. Hand-built from stoneware, the vessel retains the recognizable cylindrical form of a can while replacing its disposable nature with the durability and weight of fired clay. The surface is covered with expressive faces, symbols, and handwritten details rendered in earthy brown tones, creating a playful yet enigmatic visual language that invites closer observation. Like the other works in the Coin Cans series, Coin Can 3 examines the relationship between accumulation and loss, permanence and impermanence, encouraging reflection on what we choose to keep, protect, and ultimately let go.

Camilla Sturm is a New York City–based ceramic artist and archaeologist working in both wheel-thrown and hand-built forms. Her practice is grounded in rhythm, repetition, and the physical logic of making: forms shaped through accumulated gestures that retain the trace of the hand. She is interested in how simple, repeated actions build structure over time, and how those structures hold both intention and variation.

Drawing from New York’s urban landscape, she references industrial materials, mechanical infrastructure, and the visual language of functional objects, including those that have fallen out of use. Her work attends to utility, erosion, and residue, often looking at what remains when objects are removed from their original systems.

Instagram handle: @eventual_artifact