Before moving to the US, Any was an architect and urban planner in her hometown of Curitiba, Brazil, where she also learned goldsmithing. In New York City, while working in the tech industry, she studied documentary photography—which strongly influenced her relationship with beauty—and pottery. From then on, her artistic practice centered around clay and metal, but she continued to expand her knowledge of traditional crafts, from kintsukuroi to fileteado porteño. This body of knowledge colors her studio practice and her path as an artist. She became a full-time artist after moving to the Pacific Northwest. She lives in Seattle, and enjoys taking her pots on long road trips to fire wood kilns all over the country. Her passion project is flashandash.com, a crowdsourced online directory of wood kilns. ANY
Every woman is a daughter, and I am interested in how much, if at all, we resemble our mothers and our families. I make vessels that evoke female forms—arms and shoulders, bellies and butts, heads and hair—and are conceived in relation to one another. What does it look like to be known, invited, accepted? We manifest the elemental connection between semblance and belonging in our keenness for molding our image.
I’m drawn to carved tops that echo the movement of hair; and I adorn my vessels with metals like we do our bodies with jewelry, and wad marks like we do with ink. My clay practice remains rooted in pottery, and I apply the same carving techniques and metal additions to dishes and bowls.