Clay Work- Cave House

 

Cappadocia is a UNESCO World Heritage region in Turkey, recognized by its landscape of rock formations, fairy chimneys and cave dwellings. Cappadocia was my inspiration in this clay work. My intention was to investigate the cave house formations by shaping the clay.

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