Aleisa Miksad

In ways that are reflective rather than macabre, Aleisa Miksad's work draws on symbols of death and burial as repositories of collective memory, endurance, suspension, and metaphysical space.

Porcelain, while inherently fragile, endures across centuries. Familiar ceramic forms remain as silhouettes, yet their functions are withdrawn; vessels become reliquaries, and pelts become shrouds. Across vessels, wall-mounted reliefs, and stitched porcelain ‘pelts’, Miksad builds dense surfaces of hand-formed growth. Ruffles, floral motifs, and hair-like protrusions accumulate around faces and fragments of portraiture, suggesting both botanical abundance and bodily protection. Faces appear partially submerged, neither fully present nor absent, echoing the intermediary nature of souls in the posthumous habitation of the Elysian Fields.